Daytona Raises $60M at a $1B Valuation for AI Agent Computers

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Daytona, a startup that builds cloud computers for AI agents, has raised a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation. FirstMark Growth led the round, and Daytona's total funding now stands at $91 million.

Several founders and executives invested personally: Patrick Collison of Stripe, Tobi Lütke of Shopify, Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity, Eric Yuan of Zoom, Olivier Pomel of Datadog, Adam D'Angelo of Quora and Brendan Foody of Mercor. Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next and Okta Ventures came in as strategic investors. Among earlier backers, E2VC is in its fourth round with the company and Upfront Ventures in its third; FirstMark Capital and Pace Capital are in their second. Evergreen Fund, Alumni Ventures and Torch Capital are also new.

What the company sells

Daytona runs sandboxes, isolated computers where agents write code, use Git and execute tasks. CEO and co-founder Ivan Burazin says an ordinary cloud instance takes minutes to boot and runs until someone shuts it down, while an agent's computer has to start in milliseconds, pause with its state intact, fork into parallel copies and disappear when the job is done. The platform offers Linux, Windows, macOS and GPU sandboxes, and Burazin calls Daytona the only provider with all four on one platform.

Matt Turck, a partner at FirstMark, said the company's breakthrough is making "a computer for every agent" practical, with instant startup, persistent state and the tooling agents need to write code, use Git and run safely at scale.

Growth and customers

According to the company, revenue has grown about 25 times since January, with average monthly net revenue retention of roughly 135%. Customers from six months ago are spending nearly three times as much today, it says.

Customers include Meta and Cohere, data and training-environment teams such as Handshake, Snorkel, Surge AI, Turing, AfterQuery and Trajectory, and product companies including Writer, Clay, n8n, Postman, Mintlify and bolt.new. Writer ran its own sandbox platform until it passed 20,000 sandboxes a day, then provisioned 300,000 on Daytona in a single month. AfterQuery replaced its in-house GKE cluster with Daytona in one day.

Daytona is hiring in San Francisco across engineering, go-to-market and operations.

Source: Daytona