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Daytona Raises $60 Million Series B At $1 Billion Valuation Led By FirstMark Growth
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Daytona raises $60M Series B led by FirstMark Growth, total funding reaches $91M. Valuation hits $1 billion, making Daytona a unicorn.
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“Its reported net revenue retention rate was around 135 per cent, indicating that existing customers were spending more on its services over time.”
“Three-year-old Daytona is building a cloud specifically for long-running agents, which have different infrastructure needs than yesteryear’s software, the startup contends.”
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Daytona’s Series B
Daytona Platforms announced a $60 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation led by FirstMark Growth, and the New York-based startup said it has now raised a total of $91 million. FirstMark also led Daytona’s $24 million Series A in February, and Daytona’s latest round drew a long list of investors. Daytona’s three-year-old team said it is building a cloud specifically for long-running agents, which it argues need different infrastructure than “yesteryear’s software.”
Founder Ivan Burazin wrote that “Agents don’t work like the long-lived services today’s cloud was designed for,” and he added that agents “spin up thousands of short, stateful jobs nobody planned in advance.” Daytona said its cloud is like giving every agent its own computer, with access to sandboxed versions of Linux, Windows, macOS, and GPUs on the same platform.
Who backed the round
Daytona named 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 as angels participating in the Series B. Daytona listed Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next, and Okta Ventures as participants in the round. Daytona was co-founded by Ivan Burazin, Goran Draganić and Vedran Jukić, and the company was established in 2023.
Daytona shifted its focus in 2025 toward infrastructure for AI agents, and it framed the company’s platform as providing infrastructure for creating and managing computing environments. Matt Truck from FirstMark said, “We believe the next infrastructure shift is from human-centric cloud primitives to agent-native ones.”
Agent cloud and next steps
Daytona’s pitch, as described in coverage, focused on sandboxed environments where agents can run tasks and then be reset or discarded, and the company said its platform provides isolated Linux, Windows, and macOS environments plus GPUs.
“Agents don’t work like the long-lived services today’s cloud was designed for.”
Daytona’s blog post framed the challenge as agents needing a cloud built for “thousands of short, stateful jobs nobody planned in advance,” and it described the company’s approach as giving each agent its own computer.
Daytona’s “breakthrough” was making “a computer for every agent” practical, with instant startup, persistent state, and the tooling agents need to write code, use Git, and execute safely at scale.
Daytona cited revenue increasing approximately 25-fold since January, and it put its reported net revenue retention rate at around 135 per cent.
Daytona’s own post announcing the funding said, “We just raised a $60M Series B at a $1B valuation to build @daytonaio into the Agent Cloud,” and it added, “We’re a 35-person team. But that’s about to change; we’re hiring across the board.”