Oddpool

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About Oddpool

YC company profile

Institutional infrastructure for prediction markets

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.

YC batch: Spring 2026
Founded: 2026
Team size: 2
Location: San Francisco
Country: US
Status: Inactive
Industry: B2B
Stage: Early
YC partner: David Lieb

Founders

Ritesh Malpani — Founder/CEO

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

CS @ Georgia Tech

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Avi Arora — Founder

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