GoKawiilDaytona raises $60M Series B at $1B valuation to build cloud for AI agents
Daytona Platforms said Friday it closed a $60 million Series B led by FirstMark Growth at a $1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $91 million. The round drew a roster of tech executives including 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, alongside Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next, and Okta Ventures. The three-year-old New York startup builds cloud infrastructure tailored to AI agents, which founder Ivan Burazin says require sandboxed, short-lived computing environments rather than the long-running services traditional cloud platforms were built for.
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The scale of the valuation and the breadth of individual backers suggest investors see infrastructure for autonomous AI agents as a distinct, fast-growing market separate from conventional cloud computing. Burazin's framing implies a bet that existing cloud providers like AWS or Azure aren't optimized for agent workloads, which could open space for specialized challengers. The participation of corporate investors like Qualcomm and Samsung hints at potential interest in embedding agent infrastructure into hardware or device ecosystems.
- Daytona raised $60M in a Series B led by FirstMark Growth, reaching a $1B valuation and $91M in total funding.
- Backers include high-profile tech founders and executives such as Patrick Collison, Tobi Lütke, and Aravind Srinivas, plus corporate investors like Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung Next.
- The startup argues AI agents need fundamentally different cloud infrastructure than traditional long-running software services.
Source: techcrunch.com — Julie Bort, 2026-10-23
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