Miles Saffran

Miles Saffran is a New York-based technology entrepreneur and the former Co-Founder of Railbird Technologies, a prediction market platform. He launched the company in 2021, guided it through the Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch with a $500,000 pre-seed round, and ultimately led the team to a $500 million valuation before its acquisition by DraftKings in October 2025. Prior to his entrepreneurial venture, Saffran worked as an investment research analyst at Point72, where he specialized in the financial technology and gaming sectors. He also served as a data scientist for the Orlando Magic, building machine learning models for player scouting and in-game strategy. Saffran holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Yale University. His professional background centers on leveraging data science and machine learning to build scalable platforms within the sports, gaming, and financial technology industries.