The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 1/6/2026
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The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 1/6/2026
"The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 1/6/2026 featuring funding details for Marketecture, Pluto, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. Pluto - $8.6M Seed Pluto, an AI-powered lending platform purpose built to bring liquidity to private market investors, has raised $8.6M in Seed funding led by Motive Ventures, with participation from Portage, Apollo, and Hamilton Lane. Pluto was founded by Neel Ganu in 2025."
"HeyMilo, an AI-powered candidate screening and management platform for employers, has raised $3.9M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that the total offering is for $4.5M and there were seven investors in this close. Founded by Ramie Raufdeen and Sabashan Ragavan in 2023, HeyMilo has now raised a total of $6M in reported equity funding."
On 1/6/2026, Pluto raised $8.6M in a Seed round led by Motive Ventures with participation from Portage, Apollo, and Hamilton Lane. Pluto is an AI-powered lending platform built to bring liquidity to private market investors and was founded by Neel Ganu in 2025. HeyMilo raised $3.9M according to an SEC filing that indicates a $4.5M offering and seven investors; HeyMilo was founded in 2023 by Ramie Raufdeen and Sabashan Ragavan and has now raised $6M in reported equity. Marketecture raised a $1M Seed led by AperiamVentures with multiple investor participants and was founded in 2022 by Ari Paparo, Zach Rodgers, and Jeremy Bloom.
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