Meet the founder
My name is Evan Mattas, and am the founder of Handshake Betting. I started this company my junior year at Penn State University with the goal of solving problems in the world of sports betting. I had a love for sports betting in college and would regularly make bets and watch the games with my friends. Throughout my sports betting, I realized the magnitude at which large sports books control their users. They select their own odds in a way that they will profit, and they also adjust them as more money is put on a certain bet. This made me think that if they could consistently make money, why can’t the actual bettors? It is with that idea that I created Handshake Betting, where the bettors select the odds and the money stays with the bettors. To me, this idea of personalized sports betting made betting more fun and competitive as you can bet against your friends and real people, while also keeping the money where it belongs, with the bettors. I wanted to create this company because I saw how much large sports books were abusing their power over the bettors for profit. Being a sports bettor myself, I couldn’t stand to watch companies profit billions while the majority of bettors lost their money to them. This site is a spot where sports bettors can come together and change the way sports bets are made. Together we can all collectively change the world of sports betting, one bet at a time. Join me and my team to help make sports betting mor