Daytona Platforms has announced a $60 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation, led by FirstMark Growth. The official announcement is dated October 20, 2026, and was covered by TechCrunch on October 23. With the new round, the company's total funding reaches $91 million, after a $24 million Series A in February, also led by FirstMark.
The company's thesis is straightforward: AI agents do not behave like traditional cloud services. According to founder Ivan Burazin, they spin up thousands of short, stateful jobs nobody planned in advance — and therefore need a cloud of their own. Daytona calls this layer the Agent Cloud: each agent gets its own computer, with Linux, Windows, macOS and GPU sandboxes on a single platform.
In practice, the company says, these environments start in milliseconds, can be paused with their state intact, copied in parallel and shut down when the job ends. That is a company claim, not an independently measured result. The customer list cited by Daytona includes Meta, Cohere, Writer, Clay, n8n and Postman, plus teams that train models, such as Handshake, Snorkel and Surge AI.
The round also stands out for its investor list: besides FirstMark, angels include Patrick Collison (Stripe), Tobi Lütke (Shopify), Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity), Eric Yuan (Zoom), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Adam D'Angelo (Quora) and Brendan Foody (Mercor). Strategic investors include Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next and Okta Ventures. The company says its revenue grew about 25 times between January and September 2026, with average monthly net revenue retention of about 135% — figures disclosed by Daytona itself, without detailed public financial statements.
Read it carefully: a $1 billion valuation is a vote of confidence from investors, not proof that Daytona has already won the race for agent infrastructure. The market is crowded and the big clouds are not standing still. What the funding concretely signals is that agent infrastructure has stopped being a niche: it has become a central bet, backed by serious money and names.
Image credit: Series B announcement image published on Daytona's official blog.
Fontes: Daytona (official announcement, October 20, 2026) and TechCrunch (October 23, 2026).
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