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BettingStartups Podcast
Weekly conversations with early-stage founders building in real money gaming and prediction markets
Latest episode · Ep. 229 · 33:51
Inside the raise to build "Expedia for sports betting" w/ Gino Donati from BetOpenly and OpenMarkets
with Gino Donati, BetOpenly
Ep. 229 welcomes back Gino Donati, Founder of BetOpenly, for a bonus episode exploring the evolution of his peer-to-peer betting exchange and his ambitious new venture, Open Markets. Gino discusses building a universal betting marketplace, connecting liquidity across platforms, serving institutional clients, and the lessons he's learned about fundraising and scaling a business.
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SEPTEMBER 2026
229Inside the raise to build "Expedia for sports betting" w/ Gino Donati from BetOpenly and OpenMarkets
Gino Donati · BetOpenly
Reinventing free-to-play prediction games "without the bill" w/ Maksim Afanasev from Pixl.Bet
Maksim Afanasev · Pixl.Bet
Meet the First Pitch finalists for SBC Summit in Lisbon
Empowering prediction market traders w/ Justin & Cam from PredictQ
Justin Herzig and Cameron MacMillan · PredictQ
AUGUST 2026
225
Unifying the messy sports data ecosystem w/ Amar Rao from SportsStack
Amar Rao · SportsStack
Redefining sports prediction markets through rechargeable trading cards w/ Andrew Wood from RallyTabs
Andrew Wood · RallyTabs
Launching the "Plaid for prediction markets" w/ Andrew Gonzalez from Parlay X
Andrew Gonzalez · ParlayX
Bringing poker tournament mechanics to sports predictions w/ Robert McCall from The Sharps
Robert McCall · The Sharps
JULY 2026
221
At the intersection of sports betting and financial trading w/ Frank Li
Frank Li · ESX
Solving the pain of manual marketing compliance w/ Neil Dillon from Solas Compliance
Neil Dillon · Solas Compliance
How the world's #1 sports betting operator accelerates startup partnerships w/ Edward & Robert from Flutter
Edward Lyttel and Robert Fulforth · Flutter
AI-first sports intelligence infrastructure w/ Devon & Tejas from Blitz
Devon Sinha and Tejas S · Blitz Analytics
JUNE 2026
217
Turning sports narratives into "momentum markets" w/ Nick Meader from SpeedLabs
Nick Meader · SpeedLabs
Childhood games with adult stakes w/ Jackson Erminio from Spina
Jackson Erminio · Spina
Unpacking WagerWire's new prediction market license w/ Travis Geiger
Travis Geiger · WagerWire
Combining responsible gaming with player retention to fix a leaky safety net w/ Alec Gehlot from PlaySignal
Alec Gehlot · PlaySignal
Meet the intelligence layer for the outcome economy w/ Gregory Tolmochow from Trendline Labs
Gregory Tolmochow · Trendline Labs
MAY 2026
212
Meet the First Pitch finalists competing for $100k in prizes
Matt Bresler · Odditt · Matt Paulton · ParlayX · Javier Troncoso · InsightPlay.ai
Building the AI-native orchestration layer for payments in gaming w/ Filip Michalsky from Soap Payments
Filip Michalsky · Soap Payments
Building DFS 3.0 to prioritize "less spreadsheets and more friends" w/ Matt Kelley from Fast Draft
Matt Kelley · FastDraft
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