Daytona raises $60M Series B at $1B valuation to build a cloud for AI agents

Daytona, a San Francisco-based startup building cloud infrastructure for AI agents, has raised a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation. That makes a company founded in 2023 a unicorn. Its pitch is simple: software agents need a place to do their jobs, and the existing cloud wasn’t designed with them in mind. The company announced the round on Tuesday. FirstMark led the deal. Who wrote the checks The cap table reads like a who’s who of founder-CEOs. Patrick Collison of Stripe, Tobi Lütke of Shopify, Aravind Srinivas of Perplexity, Adam D’Angelo of Quora and Eric Yuan of Zoom all joined the round. Strategic money came too. Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next and Okta Ventures took part. FirstMark is no newcomer here. The firm also led Daytona’s $24 million Series A, making this at least its second time leading a priced round for the company. Before that, Daytona raised a pre-seed of about $2 million in 2023 and a $5 million seed in 2024. The climb from a roughly $2 million pre-seed to a $1 billion valuation took only a few years. What Daytona actually sells Daytona’s core product is a programmable “sandbox,” an isolated computing environment where an agent can execute code, call...