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Oddpool

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Oddpool is a platform that helps quant funds and trading desks harness the power of prediction markets.

Avi and Ritesh have been roommates since freshman year at Georgia Tech. Avi has a Master's in ML and saved Microsoft $6M/year by building a more accurate model on half the hardware. Ritesh has a Master's in Distributed Systems and made buy-side trading systems at Bloomberg 40% faster.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Product & workflow

Thirty minutes, a real sample of the archive, and a straight answer on whether it fits your workflow.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-27

Pricing

Pro ($30/month) gives you the full dashboard suite -- arbitrage scanner, price spreads, volume rankings, whale tracking -- plus 1M API requests/month and 3 WebSocket connections.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-27

Founders & team

Previously Oddpool, Benchspan

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Ritesh Malpani

Founder/CEO

Founder, CTO @ Oddpool | Prev. SWE @ Bloomberg Architected systems processing 100K+ TPS across trading infrastructure CS @ Georgia Tech

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Avi Arora

Founder

Founder, CEO @ Oddpool | Prev. ML Researcher @ Microsoft Trained the prompt injection model at Microsoft which secures 20 billion requests / year CS @ Georgia Tech

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2026 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Hacker News · Y Combinator

Profile depthenriched profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Not assessed · 4 of 6 areas documented

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