ParlayX Wins SBC First Pitch Competition
1st Place and $100k in prizes at SBC Summit Americas.
ParlayX won First Pitch Americas 2026 at SBC Summit Americas, taking first place over a field of strong finalists on the Leaders Stage in front of a live audience and an expert judging panel.
We pitched on June 11 alongside InsightPlay.ai, Odditt, OddsBlaze, and The Sharps. The bar was high, and every team on that stage showed where prediction markets and betting innovation are heading. We are proud to have come out on top.
The panel that selected the winner brought real weight from across the industry: Paris Smith (Founder & CEO, Defy the Odds), Evan Meyer (Managing Partner, Astralis Capital Management), David Williams (Cofounding Partner, Discerning Capital), and Meredith McPherron (CEO & Managing Partner, DRIVE by DraftKings).
The win comes with a prize package valued at over $100,000. We will put it to work where it counts, accelerating the parts of the product that get more liquidity into our users' hands faster.
The recognition validates the thesis we built ParlayX on. Prediction markets fragment liquidity across venues, and that fragmentation costs participants money and time on every order. Institutional traders need one place to compare opportunities across markets and route into the best available price, rather than stitching together venues by hand and accepting whatever fills they can find. ParlayX aggregates those markets and routes intelligently, so our users act on a complete picture instead of a partial one.
Thank you to SBC Summit Americas for the platform, to the judges for their time, and to the founders we shared the stage with. We are just getting started.
