PANews February 24 News, the prediction market professional trading platform Fireplace has completed a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round, led by Frachtis, with participation from White Star Capital and several other VCs and angels. The funds will be used to build cross-platform prediction market trading infrastructure for institutions, including cross-scenario aggregation, intelligent order routing, real-time data, institutional-level execution, charting tools, as well as wallet, whale, and insider tracking features.
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