Daytona Reaches $1B Valuation with $60M Series B to Build the Agent Cloud

Daytona Platforms announced on Friday that it has raised a $60 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation, led by FirstMark Growth. The company says it has now raised a total of $91 million.

The New York–based startup has attracted not only FirstMark — which also led its $24 million Series A in February — but also a roster of high-profile angel investors in this latest round. According to Daytona, these include Stripe's Patrick Collison, Shopify's Tobi Lütke, Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas, Zoom's Eric Yuan, Datadog's Olivier Pomel, Quora's Adam D'Angelo (who also sits on OpenAI's board), and Mercor's Brendan Foody. Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next, and Okta Ventures also participated.

A Cloud Built for Agents, Not Legacy Services

Founded three years ago, Daytona is building a cloud purpose-built for long-running agents, which it argues have infrastructure needs fundamentally different from the software of previous eras.

"Agents don't work like the long-lived services today's cloud was designed for. They spin up thousands of short, stateful jobs nobody planned in advance, and they need a cloud built for that," founder Ivan Burazin wrote in a blog post announcing the round.

Daytona's platform, he said, is akin to giving every agent its own computer. Agents gain access to sandboxed versions of Linux, Windows, and macOS, along with GPUs and other services, all within a single platform.

Positioning in the 2026 Agent Infrastructure Landscape

As agentic AI workloads mature in 2026, infrastructure providers are increasingly competing to serve autonomous systems that require persistent, stateful execution environments rather than traditional request-response architectures. Daytona's approach — isolating each agent in its own sandboxed compute environment while consolidating multi-OS and GPU access on one platform — reflects a broader industry shift toward purpose-built agent runtimes. The participation of hyperscaler-adjacent investors such as Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung Next, alongside enterprise identity player Okta Ventures, signals growing interest in securing and standardizing the infrastructure layer underpinning agent deployments.

via TechCrunch