What RAIN. does

RAIN is a London-headquartered private financial services firm founded in 2022 that develops capital, liquidity, and risk-transfer products aimed at startups, venture investors, and enterprise buyers. Its stated focus areas are capital and liquidity solutions, hybrid and entrepreneur-led investments, and business growth products for special situations in the venture industry. The firm describes three primary customer segments — startups and growth companies, venture investors and investment companies, and enterprise buyers and entrepreneurs — served through a horizontal segmentation approach.

Behind that advisory framing, the firm has built a blockchain-based prediction markets protocol anchored by the RAIN token, which carries a maximum supply of 1.15 trillion units and a built-in burn mechanism intended to offset supply overhead. On May 26, 2026, the Rain Foundation injected $100 million — split evenly between USDT and RAIN — into the protocol to establish a deep liquidity base targeting high-volume traders and minimal slippage. The capital injection coincided with a 44% surge in the RAIN token to an all-time high of $0.01195 and propelled Rain to the No. 3 global position among prediction-market platforms by total value locked, trailing Polymarket and Kalshi. The firm has also attracted at least one publicly-disclosed institutional counterparty: Enlivex Ltd., which holds approximately 79.57 trillion RAIN tokens (~$1.16 billion) as a strategic treasury asset.

RAIN operates with a headcount of 11-50 and a leadership team drawn from senior ranks at Goldman Sachs, Citadel, Citi Innovation Labs, Bank of America, and PwC Strategy&, supplemented by board members with backgrounds at Goldman Sachs Asia, Pershing Square, Longview Partners, and PIMCO. Ownership structure, funding history, and revenue are not publicly disclosed. The company's blended profile — traditional venture-finance advisory wrapped around an actively trading tokenized protocol — means revenue mechanics, fees, and unit economics are not transparent from public sources.

Name

RAIN.

Website

https://raincommunity.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

RAIN is a London-headquartered private financial services firm, founded in 2022, that provides capital, liquidity, and risk-transfer products to startups, venture investors, and enterprise buyers, and operates a blockchain-based prediction markets protocol anchored by the RAIN token.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

St. Peter Port

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

RAIN provides new financial products, business solutions, and investment offerings to the venture industry, focusing on capital and liquidity solutions, hybrid and entrepreneur-led investments, risk transfer products, and business growth products. Its associated prediction markets protocol uses the RAIN utility and governance token with a built-in burn mechanism to support on-chain prediction market trading with deep liquidity.

Product overview

RAIN is a financial products and business solutions company that brings new financial products, business solutions, and investment to the venture industry. The focus is on capital and liquidity solutions, hybrid and entrepreneur-led investments, as well as risk transfer and business growth products. The company serves a diverse client base including startups and growth companies, venture investors and investment companies, enterprise buyers and entrepreneurs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rain Prediction Markets Protocol

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Polymarket: Polymarket is the largest crypto-native prediction market platform globally, and RAIN is explicitly ranked No. 2 to Polymarket by total value locked. Both operate prediction market infrastructure with native tokens, serving similar user bases seeking event-based trading.
• PredictIt: PredictIt is an established prediction market platform focused on political and economic events. It is directly comparable to RAIN as a peer in the event-prediction market category, operating in a regulated (though constrained) environment.
• Kalshi: Kalshi is the leading CFTC-regulated prediction market in the US and the No. 1 platform globally by TVL. Like RAIN, Kalshi enables event-based trading on real-world outcomes, but with the critical distinction of operating within a regulated framework, intensifying competitive pressure on RAIN.
• Augur: Augur is one of the earliest decentralized prediction market protocols, also using a native token (REP) and operating on Ethereum. Augur is directly comparable to RAIN in that both are crypto-native prediction market platforms with token-based governance and burn/incentive mechanisms.
• Manifold Markets: Manifold Markets is a play-money and real-money prediction market platform. It is directly comparable to RAIN as a peer in the prediction markets category, with a focus on social/community-driven markets similar to RAIN's venture ecosystem orientation.

Broad incumbents

• Hyperliquid: Hyperliquid is a high-performance decentralized perpetuals exchange with a native HYPE token. It is a broad incumbent comparable to RAIN in operating token-driven, liquidity-deep on-chain trading infrastructure, and competes for the same crypto-native liquidity and user attention.
• dYdX: dYdX is a leading decentralized perpetuals and derivatives exchange. While not a direct prediction market peer, dYdX is a broad incumbent in the crypto on-chain trading space, comparable to RAIN in token-based decentralized trading infrastructure and audience overlap.

Emerging players

• Limitless Labs: Limitless is a Base-based prediction market exchange with a native token. It is an emerging peer in the same crypto prediction market category as RAIN, with similar token-based incentive design and a focus on real-world event markets.
• Hedgehog Markets: Hedgehog Markets is a Solana-based social prediction market. It is an emerging peer in the same crypto prediction market category as RAIN, sharing the token-based incentive model and real-world event focus.
• Zeitgeist: Zeitgeist is a Substrate-based decentralized prediction market protocol with a native ZTG token. It is an emerging crypto-native peer comparable to RAIN in token-driven prediction market infrastructure, though with smaller scale and TVL.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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