Valence
YC W26 · Active · Unified prediction markets trading platform
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 TotalisShared: prediction market, consumer financeActiveOther | Other | Active | YCX26 |
 DomeShared: prediction market, unified, polymarketInactiveDevtools | Devtools | Inactive | YCF25 |
 SelfinShared: prediction market, driven, consumer financeActiveOther | Other | Active | YCF25 |
 River MarketsShared: prediction market, unified, traderActiveDevtools | Devtools | Active | YCX26 |
 OddpoolShared: prediction market, trading, infrastructureActiveDevtools | Devtools | Active | YCX26 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 BirkelandShared: prediction marketNot statedOther | Other | Not stated | EF2023 |
 Better OpinionsShared: prediction market, tradingActiveOther | Other | Active | YCW22 |
 Sequence MarketsShared: prediction market, execute, traderActiveOther | Other | Active | YCW26 |
 ValCtrlShared: prediction market, contractActiveOther | Other | Active | YCX26 |
 NovigShared: prediction market, tradingActiveOther | Other | Active | YCS22 |
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Founders
- Neo WangFounder
- Daniel Kasabov-NouvionFounder
- Arthur ZhouFounder
About Valence
Valence is a unified trading platform for prediction markets. We provide infrastructure to aggregate and execute contracts across Kalshi, Polymarket, and other platforms, surface arbitrage and mispricing opportunities in real time, and give systematic traders the API and backtesting tools they need to build and execute data-driven strategies on anything.
- YC batch
- W26 · Winter 2026
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- Developer tools
- Team size
- 3
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2026
- Checked
- 32m ago
Valence: questions
Which YC batch was Valence in?
Valence was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).
Is Valence still active?
Y Combinator lists Valence as active.
Who founded Valence?
Valence's founders, as listed on its YC page: Neo Wang (Founder), Daniel Kasabov-Nouvion (Founder), Arthur Zhou (Founder).
Where is Valence based?
Valence lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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