Kalshi stock: is Kalshi publicly traded, and can you buy shares?

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This page is information, not investment advice. It contains no price predictions.

Is Kalshi publicly traded?#

No. Kalshi is a private company, so it has no stock symbol and you cannot buy its shares through a normal brokerage account. In the SEC's records it is Kalshi Inc., a Delaware company based in New York, and every filing it has made there is a Form D, the notice a company files when it sells shares privately. A company that plans to list files a registration statement first. Kalshi has filed none as of 11 November 2026.

The "Kalshi stock price" on finance sites is a private-market estimate. Their private-company pages show estimates built from private trades, bids and offers, or funding rounds. They are not quotes you can trade on.

Kalshi was founded in 2018 by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, who met at MIT. Mansour is co-founder and chief executive. What the exchange does is covered in what Kalshi is and how it works.

What is Kalshi's valuation?#

$40 billion, after a $1 billion Series G at a $40 billion post-money valuation that Kalshi announced on 29 October 2026, co-led by Wellington and Sequoia. Kalshi said the money will go to new products such as indices, single-stock perpetual futures and compute markets, to institutional sales and to expansion in Latin America and Europe.

The table puts each round Kalshi announced next to the Form D filing that matches it by date. Form D filings do not name the round, so the matching is ours.

The Form D figures can differ from the headlines. A Form D counts only the shares the company itself had sold by the filing date, so it leaves out sales between existing holders and money that arrives after the filing. The notice we matched to the Series F reports $1.12 billion sold to 71 investors, more than the $1 billion in the announcement. Its timing is ambiguous: it was filed on 25 August 2026, and Clarity and Forge both date the first Series G money to August 2026, so it may include early Series G sales. The filing itself does not say.

What is one Kalshi share worth?#

About $870 to $1,070 on the four sources below. None is a quote you can trade on. Each platform builds its figure its own way, from rounds, trades, bids and offers, and the figures move with each round.

Clarity calls its price a "model-derived indicative price estimate", a daily blend of confirmed transactions and the bid and ask midpoint. Nasdaq Private Market's price is dated the day before the Series G was announced.

The implied valuations without a stated figure are our arithmetic. Clarity and Forge both list the Series G at $1,066.38 a share and $40 billion, which means about 37.5 million shares, fully diluted, and we used that count. Both also date the round earlier than Kalshi's announcement. Clarity shows a close in August 2026 with $1.1 billion raised, and Forge's data lists Series G closings on 25 August, 17 September and 29 October 2026.

Can you buy Kalshi stock?#

Not on a stock exchange. There are three indirect routes, each with its own catch.

Private secondary markets. Platforms such as Clarity and Nasdaq Private Market match buyers with existing shareholders. You generally need to be an accredited investor, and Clarity says every sale stays subject to the company's transfer restrictions and approvals. Some of these deals run through special purpose vehicles, small funds that pool investors' money to buy a block of shares. More than ten such vehicles named after Kalshi have filed with the SEC, among them HII Kalshi-05.

The DICE ETF. The Tema Trading & Prediction Markets ETF (DICE) was listed on Cboe on 9 September 2026 and charges 0.75% a year. It holds Kalshi and Polymarket through special purpose vehicles, alongside listed companies such as Intercontinental Exchange, Interactive Brokers, Coinbase and Robinhood. On 9 November 2026 its daily holdings file listed Kalshi SPV exposure at 7.00% of the fund, a position valued at $239,938 in a fund of about $3.4 million. That is exposure through a vehicle, not Kalshi shares held directly. Tema marks the position at its own purchase price and says it updates the mark when a company announces an official round. On 11 November its page still said its marks imply a $36 billion Kalshi valuation, not the Series G's $40 billion.

Pre-IPO tokens. PreStocks sells a Solana token called KALSHI that tracks Kalshi's share price. Its FAQ says the tokens give economic exposure only, with no ownership, voting or dividend rights, are not issued or endorsed by the companies they track, and are not available in the US or to US persons. The token is PreStocks' product, not Kalshi's.

You also cannot trade Kalshi on Hyperliquid. On 11 November 2026 none of the ten deployers of builder perps on Hyperliquid listed a Kalshi market, per Hyperliquid's info API. The pre-IPO names that do trade there are covered in HIP-3 builder-deployed perpetuals explained and whether there is a Hyperliquid stock.

Is Kalshi going to IPO?#

Kalshi is considering it, but not in 2026. Mansour told CNBC's Squawk Box on 24 June 2026 that a listing would not happen in 2026: "we're basically thinking about it, but obviously, we don't have an answer yet," per CNBC's report of the interview. Bloomberg reported on 30 September that the Series G was expected to be Kalshi's last round before an IPO, anticipated as soon as 2027, citing people familiar with the matter.

No date, exchange or ticker has been announced. The first public sign of a listing would be a registration statement on Kalshi's SEC page.

Kalshi's legal position in the US, state by state, is covered in is Kalshi legal.

Who owns Kalshi?#

Kalshi has not published its cap table, so nobody outside the company can say who owns what share. Its funding announcements name the investors. Sequoia led the Series A and co-led the Series D and G. Paradigm led the Series C and E. Other backers include Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Wellington, IVP, ARK Invest, Y Combinator and Hudson River Trading.

A few are arms of listed companies. CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, joined the Series D, E and G. Coinbase Ventures joined the Series D, and Morgan Stanley the Series F. CNBC's articles disclose that CNBC and Kalshi have a commercial relationship that includes a minority investment. Each of these companies is far larger than its Kalshi stake, so their shares are not a practical way to own Kalshi.

Partners are not owners either. Firms that Kalshi lists as partners in its Series G announcement, such as Interactive Brokers, Nasdaq and PayPal, work with its exchange; being a partner gives them no shares.

Owning Kalshi versus trading on it#

A Kalshi share is a claim on the exchange's business. A Kalshi contract is a position on one event that pays $1 or nothing. How Kalshi charges traders is in the Kalshi fees guide. Whether the traders themselves come out ahead is a separate question, covered in can you make money on prediction markets.

Totalis, which publishes this page, is a prediction market app on Hyperliquid. It is not available to US persons, and signing up takes an invite code. Its markets list on 11 November 2026 included IPO questions, such as whether Anthropic's IPO is confirmed by 30 November 2026, but no market on a Kalshi listing. Its docs explain how a Combo of outcomes is quoted and settled and what Combos cost. Those markets trade in the Totalis app. For other venues, see the list of prediction markets and Kalshi alternatives. The other big private name has its own page: is there a Polymarket stock.

Frequently asked questions#

What is Kalshi's stock symbol?#

It has none. Kalshi is not listed, so no exchange has given it a ticker. Labels such as KLSH.PVT on Yahoo Finance are the site's own names for private-company pages, not symbols a broker can trade.

Is Kalshi a good investment?#

This page gives no investment advice. Private shares, the DICE ETF and pre-IPO tokens carry different risks: shares you may not be able to sell, fund fees and stale marks, and a token issuer's terms. Read each offering's documents before buying.