Top Gambling Startups in 2026

- The first commission-free, high-frequency sports betting exchange, building the "Nasdaq of sports betting" - Recently closed a $6m seed round from YC, Lux, Soma, Paul Graham, Joe Montana, Innospark, the founders of Dropbox and Instacart, among many others - Looking for quant traders and researchers, SWEs, marketing, BD, operations, and product roles to work out of our NY office - Salaries at the top of benchmarks, with significant equity ownership and generous benefits - Founders are recent Harvard grads with quant experience at Jane Street and BoA and years of experience as sharp sports bettors - $300B annually bet on sports in the US and the size of the market is rapidly growing given the number of states legalizing sports betting - Currently the only way to bet is with retail sportsbooks which have egregious margins, discriminatory and inefficient practices, and a stale betting experience - Novig is a sports betting exchange that guarantees users the best lines by allowing them to bet directly against friends or the market, rather than against the house, making the betting experience more efficient, fair, and, most importantly, profitable

Blaze as a product is defining a new category in gaming. We have taken elements of casual and social gaming and turned it into a real-money wagering product. Our proprietary content and platform creates a truly differentiated player experience.

Bally’s Interactive is a leading provider of technology services focused on the US sports betting and casino gaming spaces. Our parent company, Bally's Corporation (NYSE: BALY), is a leading U.S. omnichannel provider of land-based gaming and interactive entertainment. To pursue its ambitious industry goals, Bally's has created two distinct operating divisions: "Bally's Casinos," which includes physical gaming and entertainment properties, and "Bally's Interactive," comprised of sports betting software and services company Bet.Works, fantasy sports app Monkey Knife Fight, global B2B free-to-play game provider SportCaller, and even Gamesys. The company is estimated by major Wall Street analysts to grow to $12 billion by 2025 and reach $50 billion at maturity. We provide a start-up feel with the security of being backed up by a multi-billion dollar, cash positive company. Moreover, we offer lots of PTO, great benefits, cool perks, and competitive salaries in a fun industry.

Midnite is a next-generation betting platform that is built for today’s fandom. We are a collective of engineers, quants, designers, and marketers who all share a passion for esports, sports, and gaming. We aim to bring fans together and enhance their interactions with their favourite games through the rush of winning money. Whether you want to back your favourite football team or put some money down to win your next game in Call of Duty, Midnite lets you get some skin in the game. Designed and built from the ground up with the newest technologies, we made Midnite for all levels of fandom. Making Midnite intuitive, immersive, and immediately understandable is hard work. But we believe that by keeping this our north star, we can make something truly awesome. We are backed by some of the world’s top investors that have brought you companies like Draftkings, Betfair, Revolut, Just Eat, and many more.

Smarkets is an exchange platform for betting and trading on sport and politics. We operate two main consumer products - the Smarkets exchange and SBK sportsbook app - in the UK, US, and other global markets. Being a Software Engineer at Smarkets means working in high-performing teams that have control over the features they ship and the code they write. We have built a modern tech stack around Linux, Kafka, Postgres, and Kubernetes using Python 3, C++20, Rust, and React. The Smarkets platform is used by tens of thousands daily through the app, website or REST API. We are continuously developing new features for these platforms, or improving performance, scalability and usability in the backend.

Betstamp is the best sports betting utility in market, designed to help bettors increase their profits and easily manage their process. Users cannot wager directly through the betstamp platform, but betstamp aids users in determining what to bet on, where to bet it, and how to track it. Betstamp also features the first ever verified peer-to-peer marketplace, where any user can buy or sell sports betting predicitions (picks). The app ensures that each individual pick sellers’ betting history is fully verified and cannot be manipulated for the purposes of misleading a pick buyer.

Fully automated micro-markets, odds origination, and risk management.

We are Bet Max Action, a unique iGaming concept poised to disrupt the sports betting industry. We fused the best elements of the DFS format with traditional sportsbooks in a groundbreaking tournament style sports betting platform where insight, strategy, and some luck win the day! With the flexibility to offer free-to-play and paid contests, BMA looks to partner with sports brands to increase fan engagement, and existing operators jockeying for market share. Robinhood democratized the stock market by lowering barriers of entry for everyday investors. BMA is doing the same for sports betting, giving fans more bang for their buck.

Pinnacle Data Systems, Inc. (PDSi) is a global provider of services and products for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of computer hardware products or products that contain computer hardware. The Company provides a variety of engineering and manufacturing services for global OEMs requiring custom product design, system integration, repair programs, warranty management, and specialized production capabilities. With service centers in the United States, Europe and Asia, it ensures seamless support for solutions all around the world, as well as depot repair and reverse logistics programs for the OEMs of other types of computer equipment. PDSi offers a range of technology platforms, including standard and custom-designed products for the telecommunications, imaging, defense/aerospace, medical, industrial automation and information technology (IT) markets. Its product capabilities range from board-level designs to globally certified, fully integrated systems.

Dabble brings together the best of traditional wagering and modern social media. A lightning-fast platform, built from scratch and ready to scale sets the Dabble app apart from other technology companies. Dabble will provide a platform for sports content consumers to interact, engage and share social sports experiences.