2008 founder jason trost and hunter morris headquarters london website http smarkets.com smarkets is a betting exchange founded in 2008 by americans jason trost and hunter morris . it operates out of offices at st katharine docks in central london and markets itself as the more advanced trading platform alternative to its larger rival betfair . smarkets is backed by a consortium of european investors including former last.fm chairman stefan glaenzer 1 passion capital and deutsche telekom 2 as a betting exchange all betting is peer to peer rather than against a bookmaker ; smarkets allows traders to agree odds amongst themselves . establishing a reputation for its political betting 3 4 5 smarkets also offers betting on sports current affairs and popular culture . smarkets has been listed as one of 10 european startups to watch by the wall street journal 6 and in 2012 was named in the startups 100 awards as one of the uk s most innovative inspiring and groundbreaking new companies . 7 in april 2015 smarkets announced that they have handled over 1 billion pounds worth of trades 8 and that figure passed the 2.5 billion mark 9 in 2016 . smarkets became queens park rangers global betting partner 10 in august 2015 and upgraded its sponsorship of the football team to front of shirt 11 in june 2016 . external links edit official site official blog references edit o hear steve 2010 10 25 . with betfair s pending ipo smarkets sees 1m traded on its social betting exchange . techcrunch eu . retrieved 2010 12 10 . o hear steve 2013 02 05 . deutsche telekom s t venture takes a punt on p2p betting exchange smarkets leads 2.3 m funding round . the next web . retrieved 2013 05 02 . donata huggins 2010 10 07 . the surest bet for business success . city am . london . p. 30 . retrieved 2010 03 14 . diary ken backs out of press gang . the independent . 2011 01 28 . retrieved 2011 03 14 . hasan mehdi 21 february 2011 . gove s reverse midas touch everything he touches turns to dust . new statesman 16 . retrieved 2011 03 14 . yiannopaulus milo 2010 12 08 . out of the starting blocks . wall street journal europe . retrieved 2010 12 10 . startups 100 2012 smarkets . retrieved 2012 07 13 . yiannopaulus milo 2015 04 20 . smarkets reaches 1b pound milestone . marketwatch . retrieved 2016 03 01 . knowles kitty 2016 07 07 . how to boss it like jason trost ceo at smarkets . the memo . retrieved 2016 07 22 . qpr welcome smarkets on board . 2015 08 07 . retrieved 2016 07 22 . smarkets confirmed as new shirt sponsors . 2016 06 07 . retrieved 2016 07 22 . this article about an english company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title smarkets & oldid 731041126 categories gambling companies of the united kingdombetting exchangesonline gambling companiesgambling websitessocial networking servicesenglish company stubshidden categories use dmy dates from may 2015use british english from may 2015all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 july 2016 at 14 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view