Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels

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Daytona Platforms announced connected Friday that it had raised a $60 cardinal Series B circular astatine a $1 cardinal valuation led by FirstMark Growth. The institution says it has present raised a full of $91 million.

The New York-based startup has attracted not conscionable FirstMark (which besides led its $24 cardinal Series A successful February), but a big of well-known angels successful this latest round. Daytona says they see 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 (who is besides an OpenAI committee member), and Mercor’s Brendan Foody. It besides names Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next, and Okta Ventures arsenic participants.

Three-year-old Daytona is gathering a unreality specifically for long-running agents, which person antithetic infrastructure needs than yesteryear’s software, the startup contends. “Agents don’t enactment similar the long-lived services today’s unreality was designed for. They rotation up thousands of short, stateful jobs cipher planned successful advance, and they request a unreality built for that,” laminitis Ivan Burazin wrote successful a blog station announcing the caller round. Daytona’s cloud, helium said, is similar giving each cause its ain computer, wherever agents person entree to sandboxed versions of Linux, Windows, macOS, and GPUs, among different services, connected the 1 platform.

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