Edward Tian

Edward Tian is a technology entrepreneur and the former Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Railbird Technologies based in New York City. He co-founded the prediction market platform for event contracts in 2021, guiding the startup through the Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch and generating $1.7 million in annual revenue. Under his operational leadership, Railbird secured regulatory approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a designated contract market in June 2024 before being acquired by DraftKings in October 2025. Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Tian worked as an investment research analyst at Point72, where he covered the financial technology, internet, and business services sectors for the firm. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, and financial economics from Columbia University, underpinning his ongoing professional focus on capital markets, event contracts, and derivatives trading.