Agent cloud startup Daytona raises $60 million at a $1 billion valuation
New York-based Daytona Platforms, which builds a cloud for AI agents, closed a $60 million Series B round led by FirstMark Growth. The company is now valued at $1 billion.
Daytona Platforms, a New York-based startup, announced on Friday, October 23, that it has closed a $60 million Series B funding round at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by venture firm FirstMark Growth. Daytona is building a cloud platform for long-running AI agents, meaning software that carries out tasks on its own. The company says it has now raised $91 million in total.
Investors
FirstMark also led Daytona's $24 million Series A in February. This time a number of well-known angel investors joined as well, including Patrick Collison of the payments company Stripe, Tobi Lütke of e-commerce platform Shopify, Aravind Srinivas of search company Perplexity, Eric Yuan of video-conferencing firm Zoom, Olivier Pomel of monitoring company Datadog, Adam D'Angelo of Quora, who also sits on OpenAI's board, and Brendan Foody of Mercor. Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next and Okta Ventures are also named as participants.
What Daytona offers
The three-year-old company argues that long-running agents need different infrastructure from earlier generations of software. Founder Ivan Burazin said in a blog post announcing the round that agents do not work like the long-lived services today's cloud was designed for. In his words, they launch thousands of short, stateful jobs that nobody planned in advance, and they require a cloud built for that.
Burazin describes Daytona's cloud as giving every agent its own computer. On a single platform, agents get access to sandboxed versions of Linux, Windows and macOS, as well as GPUs and other services.
