Cyrannus is reinventing venture capital with prediction market for early-stage investments
Cyrannus, a Columbus-based startup, is revolutionizing the venture capital industry with a transformative venture polling platform utilizing advanced AI technology and collective intelligence to evaluate early-stage startups and provide a prediction market for accredited investors. Cyrannus’ prediction market connects LPs, institutional investors, and venture capitalists across the U.S. — from Silicon Valley to New York — to a curated selection of high-growth startups, which have been rigorously vetted and scored by domain experts from across the globe. The app is backed by a $100 million fund and 200 investors, each committed to check sizes of $10,000.
The all-in-one venture polling platform’s prediction market offers a revolutionary way to lower investment risk and improve venture partnerships between startup founders, experts, and investors. Cyrannus leverages the collective intelligence of 1,000+ industry experts to generate in-depth insights about a portfolio company’s investment viability, and these early-stage companies are given clear rankings for easy, lower-risk investment decisions.
Cyrannus’ private swap market provides immediate liquidity, a rare feature in traditional venture capital investments. This liquidity mechanism is a game-changer for venture capital, giving investors more flexibility and quicker exits than the long-term holds of 10-15 years typically required in the VC funding ecosystem.
The company’s collective intelligence-fueled prediction market is revolutionizing early-stage funding for growth companies, creating more accessible, safer investment opportunities both nationwide and right here in Ohio.
What It Means For Ohio
Cyrannus stands to transform Ohio’s venture capital landscape by addressing two of the biggest challenges in venture investments: transparency and liquidity. For too long, venture capital has been a high-risk asset class with limited investor insights and long lock-up periods.
Cyrannus’s platform offers unprecedented transparency, allowing for the due diligence and expert vetting needed to develop well-informed investment strategies. The goal is to unlock new capital and investment opportunities in Ohio and the broader mid-continent to fuel the growth of startups and entrepreneurship across the region.
Cyrannus’s private market swap enables accredited investors to exit positions earlier than traditional VC investments, thus reducing risk while enabling them to reinvest in new small businesses more quickly.
This opens up the venture capital asset class to smaller, more flexible investors, including local family offices, pension funds, endowments, and individual accredited investors. In doing so, Cyrannus is making venture capital a viable, attractive option for Ohio-based investors and institutions.
This unique venture polling platform is redefining venture capital investment in Ohio and across the nation. It supports expert-vetted, early-stage startups while building the state as a leader in disrupting venture capital’s early funding rounds.
As it continues to provide high-impact investment opportunities, Cyrannus is set to drive venture capital fundraising and innovation across the state. This, in turn, fuels the region’s profile in growing technology companies and national capital markets alongside major accelerator hubs like New York and San Francisco.
