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Pluto: Regulated derivatives exchange
Pluto has raised $10.7M across 4 funding rounds.
Key people at Pluto.
Pluto was founded in 2025 by Dakota McDaniels (Co-Founder and COO) and Jacob Sansbury (Co-Founder and CEO).
Pluto has raised $10.7M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Pluto is a New York City-based financial technology company that operates the first regulated derivatives exchange specifically designed for the trading of compute resources. Positioned at the intersection of artificial intelligence, financial operations, and digital infrastructure, the platform allows market participants to treat computational power as a standardized and tradable financial asset. The early-stage enterprise is backed by the prominent Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator, participating in the venture capital firm's Winter 2025 investment batch to further develop its specialized banking and financial exchange services. Previously operating under the corporate names PowerPlay and Strike, the active organization currently maintains a dedicated workforce of five employees while focusing its commercial expansion efforts across the broader United States and Canadian financial markets. The specialized digital infrastructure provider was officially launched and founded in early 2025.
Key people at Pluto.
Pluto was founded in 2025 by Dakota McDaniels (Co-Founder and COO) and Jacob Sansbury (Co-Founder and CEO).
Pluto has raised $10.7M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Pluto's investors include at.inc/, Caffeinated Capital, Craft Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Zeev Capital, Eric Wu, Rob May, Switch Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, A* Capital (A Star Capital).
Pluto has raised $10.7M across 4 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $4.0M Seed in May 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2022 | $4.0M Seed | at.inc/ | Caffeinated Capital, Craft Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Zeev Capital, Eric Wu, Rob May, Switch Ventures |
| Feb 1, 2022 | $6.0M Seed | Global Founders Capital | Abstract Ventures, Kevin Hartz, A* Capital (A Star Capital), Adapt Ventures, AirAngels, Alt Capital, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, at.inc/, Authentic Ventures, Bain Capital, Banana Capital, BEENEXT, BoxGroup, Browder Capital, Caffeinated Capital, Capital Factory, CapitalX, Chemistry VC, Daffy, Dragonfly Capital Partners, Earl Grey Capital, Ethereal Ventures, Exponent Founders Capital, Fifth Wall, First Round Capital, Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Heroic Ventures, Hustle Fund, Infinite Niches, Jude Gomila Rolling Fund, Kearny Jackson, Kepler Operator’s Fund, LGF, LightShed Ventures, Matchstick Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Mischief Venture Capital, Hilarie Koplow-McAdams, Next Coast Ventures, Next Frontier Capital, NextView Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Offline Ventures, Paradox Capital, ParaFi Capital, Pareto Holdings, Pioneer Fund, Polychain Capital, Predictive VC, Redpoint Ventures, Robot Ventures, rocketship.vc, Sequoia Capital, Shaan's All Access Fund, Silence, Howard Lindzon, Soma Capital, SRB Ventures, Stripe, Suli, Team Ignite Ventures, Tet Ventures, Thirty Five Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Twelve Below, Uncork Capital, Vouch Insurance, Weekend Fund, XYZ Venture Capital, YLEM, Adam Guild, Alex Anton, Ali Moiz, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Alvin Tse, Brandon Leonardo, Chad Nitschke, Charles Zedlewski, Cory Levy, Dan Wright, David Hoffman, David Petersen, Eric Ries, Fernando Martinelli, Frederic Kerrest, Garrett Koehn, Gordon Wintrob, James Beshara, Jeremy Cai, Jon Runyan, Julian Koh, Karim Atiyeh, Kunal Shah, Manik Gupta, Mariano Conti, Mario Gabriele, Mathilde Collin, Max Mullen, Musaab Hakami, Neha Narkhede, Paul Rios, Priyank Chandra, Quinn Slack, Rich Miner, Ryan Carlson, Ryan Chan, Scott Belsky, Scot Wingo, Shamir Karkal, Siqi Chen, Stani Kulechov, Tony Xu, Victor Jacobsson, William Hockey, Zachary Hargreaves, Zack Kanter, Zak Cole, Abdulmajeed Alsukhan, Hosam Arab, Packy McCormick, Shaan Puri, Thejo Kote, Turki Bin Zarah, Graph Ventures, OldSlip Group, Eric Glyman |
| Sep 1, 2021 | $230K Seed | at.inc/, Zeev Capital | |
| Jan 30, 2013 | $500K Seed | Moshe Lichtman, Accel | Learn Capital |