Daytona Hits $1B Valuation in $60M Series B for AI Agents

Daytona Platforms, a three-year-old startup based in New York, United States, said Friday it has raised $60 million in a Series B round that values the company at $1 billion, according to TechCrunch. The round was led by FirstMark Growth, the same firm that led Daytona's $24 million Series A in February, TechCrunch reported.

How much has Daytona raised in total?

Daytona now has raised $91 million across its funding history, the company told TechCrunch. The jump from a $24 million Series A eight months ago to a $1 billion valuation in the Series B reflects the pace at which investors are pricing infrastructure companies built around autonomous software agents.

Who is backing the round?

Beyond FirstMark, Daytona listed a roster of individual investors drawn from the leadership of other technology companies: 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, and Mercor's Brendan Foody, according to the company's statement cited by TechCrunch. D'Angelo also sits on OpenAI's board, TechCrunch noted. Corporate venture arms Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next, and Okta Ventures also participated, the outlet reported.

What does Daytona's cloud platform actually provide?

Daytona builds cloud infrastructure designed specifically for AI agents rather than conventional software, founder Ivan Burazin wrote in a blog post announcing the round, as quoted by TechCrunch. "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," Burazin wrote.

Burazin described the product as giving each agent its own computer, with sandboxed access to Linux, Windows, macOS, and GPU resources on a single platform, TechCrunch reported.

Why are investors betting on agent-specific infrastructure now?

The round lands amid broader venture interest in companies building the operating layer beneath AI agents rather than the agents themselves. TechCrunch's reporting did not disclose Daytona's revenue, customer count, or employee headcount, and those figures were not available in the source material.

What else is happening in the AI infrastructure funding market?

The Daytona round arrived alongside other large infrastructure and AI-adjacent deals reported by TechCrunch the same week, including a $200 million raise by Warhound, a company engineering war dogs equipped with Anduril gear, and a $1 billion raise at a $6 billion valuation by year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes. TechCrunch did not report any direct financial or operational connection between these companies and Daytona.

Daytona's management team includes CEO Ivan Burazin, chief architect Goran Draganić, and CTO Vedran Jukic, according to an image caption published with TechCrunch's report. The company has not disclosed a timeline for additional funding rounds or product milestones beyond the Series B announcement, based on available source material.