Daytona Valued at $1 Billion With $60 Million Round

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Daytona has raised a &dollar;60 million Series B round at a &dollar;1 billion valuation&comma; led by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;firstmark&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">FirstMark Growth<&sol;a>&comma; bringing the company&&num;8217&semi;s total funding to &dollar;91 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Daytona operates an Agent Execution Cloud&period; Daytona is the only provider with Linux&comma; Windows&comma; macOS&comma; and GPU sandboxes on one platform&period; An agent can optimize a CUDA kernel&comma; test a native Mac app&comma; drive a Windows desktop&comma; or work in 3D CAD software without ever leaving Daytona&period;o<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Investors in the round include&colon; Patrick Collison &lpar;Stripe&rpar;&comma; Tobi Lütke &lpar;Shopify&rpar;&comma; Aravind Srinivas &lpar;Perplexity&rpar;&comma; Eric Yuan &lpar;Zoom&rpar;&comma; Olivier Pomel &lpar;Datadog&rpar;&comma; Adam D&&num;8217&semi;Angelo &lpar;Quora&rpar;&comma; and Brendan Foody &lpar;Mercor&rpar;&period; Qualcomm Ventures&comma; Samsung Next&comma; and Okta Ventures joined as strategic investors&comma; with participation from new and existing investors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We believe the next infrastructure shift is from human-centric cloud primitives to agent-native ones&period; Daytona&&num;8217&semi;s breakthrough is making &&num;8216&semi;a computer for every agent&&num;8217&semi; practical&colon; instant startup&comma; persistent state&comma; and the tooling agents need to write code&comma; use Git&comma; and execute safely at scale&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s a foundational building block for the agentic economy&period;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8212&semi; Matt Turck&comma; Partner&comma; FirstMark<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;AI agents need secure environments to run code&comma; call tools&comma; browse the web and learn through reinforcement learning&period; We believe Daytona&&num;8217&semi;s platform gives each agent its own environment to do all of it at scale&period; What started as an agent sandbox is now a full platform for running agents in production&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re glad to invest in Daytona as they build critical infrastructure for the agentic era&period;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; Quinn Li&comma; Senior Vice President&comma; Qualcomm Technologies&comma; Inc&period;&comma; and Global Head of Qualcomm Ventures<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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