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Novig

GamingConsumer13 open2 remote
New York, NY, USA55+ employeesSeries A raised
America's #1 Sports Prediction Market

America's #1 Sports Prediction Market

YC S22

About the Company

At Novig, we have reimagined the sports betting landscape by building a sweepstakes-based sports prediction market. Our innovative platform allows users to engage in sports predictions without traditional gambling constraints. By leveraging the sweepstakes model, we ensure compliance with regulatory requirements while providing a unique, engaging, and profitable experience for our users. Our goal is to make sports prediction more accessible, fair, and enjoyable.

Novig’s founders, Jacob and Kelechi, are recent Harvard grads with experience at Jane St & BoA who started Novig with the belief that a commission-free P2P exchange model will replace the exploitative and unprofitable betting model of traditional sportsbooks. They themselves were sophisticated sports bettors who grew increasingly frustrated by the latency, discriminatory practices, monotony, and non-profitability of the retail sports betting experience.

As the regulatory landscape evolves in the United States, Novig is positioned to become a leading innovator with our unique focus on research and technology.

Tech Stack

We're building the first high-frequency sports prediction trading platform.

Stack: mobile app in React Native; backend exchange and trading components in Java; database layer in PostgreSQL, Mongo, S3.

We’re a nimble team of researchers, engineers, statisticians, and other flavors of nerd who want to tackle some of the most challenging open-ended problems at the intersection of sports, game theory, and technology.

If you enjoy solving hard interdisciplinary problems, then you’ll enjoy working at Novig.

Proof: People who work at Novig solve hard interdisciplinary problems. □

Founders

Jacob Fortinsky
Jacob Fortinsky

Jacob is the founder and CEO of Novig. He has experience in investment banking, legislative research, and financial trading. Jacob’s also been a sharp sports bettor for years, and after getting banned from sportsbooks for being profitable and growing frustrated by the inefficiency and discrimination that plague the industry, he set out to build a public betting exchange.

Kelechi Ukah
Kelechi Ukah

Co-founder & CTO @ Novig

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