Daytona raises $60M at $1B valuation to build a cloud for AI agents
Tech Funding News Abhinaya Prabhu ● Covered by 3 sources
Daytona just raised $60M at a $1B valuation for its AI-agent cloud. The bet is that every agent will need its own sandbox, and big cloud vendors may be late.
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Daytona has closed a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, bringing total funding to $91 million. FirstMark led the round, and the list of angel investors reads like a Silicon Valley roll call: Patrick Collison, Tobi Lütke, Aravind Srinivas, Eric Yuan, Olivier Pomel, Adam D’Angelo and Brendan Foody all put money in.
The company’s pitch has shifted sharply. It started out trying to automate software development environments for big customers, then decided that AI agents needed their own computers. Instead of bolting that idea onto the old product, Daytona says it gave customers to rivals, rebuilt the product and relaunched with only about three months of revenue left in the bank. On October 20, that rewrite turned into a $1 billion price tag.
Daytona’s core product is a sandbox: a virtual computer an AI agent can use to run code, browse the web or operate software without touching a company’s broader systems. Burazin says the company can spin one up in 60 milliseconds. Agents can pause a sandbox, resume it, or clone it to try several approaches at once, and the platform runs on Linux, Windows, macOS and GPU environments.
The company says the infrastructure is already being used by Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor and Cognition, while customers include Meta, Cohere, Mercor, Handshake, Surge AI, SambaNova, Postman, Bolt.new, n8n and Clay. That matters because Daytona is selling both speed and containment. Burazin’s argument is that as companies deploy thousands of digital workers, one agent failing safely is better than one agent wandering into the rest of the company.
The numbers are moving fast, but the base is hidden. Daytona says revenue run rate is up about 25-fold since January and that customers from six months ago are now spending nearly three times as much. It won’t say what the starting point was, which makes the $1 billion valuation a bet on momentum rather than a clean revenue multiple. The company plans to use most of the new money on sales hires, with some engineering, as it grows from 35 employees and expands in San Francisco, Croatia and Singapore.
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This is the kind of round that says more about investor nerves than market certainty. Every cloud company now wants a slice of the agent stack, which is usually code for “we’d rather own the pipes than rent them.” The real test is whether Daytona can stay special once the giants decide sandboxes are fashionable too.
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