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Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a whoâÂÂs who of angels
Daytona Platforms announced on Friday that it had raised a $60 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation led by FirstMark Growth. The company says it has now raised a total of $91 million.
The New York-based startup has attracted not just FirstMark (which also led its $24 million Series A in February), but a host of well-known angels in this latest round. Daytona says they include StripeâÂÂs Patrick Collison, ShopifyâÂÂs Tobi Lütke, PerplexityâÂÂs Aravind Srinivas, ZoomâÂÂs Eric Yuan, DatadogâÂÂs Olivier Pomel, QuoraâÂÂs Adam DâÂÂAngelo (who is also an OpenAI board member), and MercorâÂÂs Brendan Foody. It also names Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next, and Okta Ventures as participants.
Three-year-old Daytona is building a cloud specifically for long-running agents, which have different infrastructure needs than yesteryearâÂÂs software, the startup contends. âÂÂAgents donâÂÂt work like the long-lived services todayâÂÂs cloud was designed for. They spin up thousands of short, stateful jobs nobody planned in advance, and they need a cloud built for that,â founder Ivan Burazin wrote in a blog post announcing the new round. DaytonaâÂÂs cloud, he said, is like giving every agent its own computer, where agents have access to sandboxed versions of Linux, Windows, macOS, and GPUs, among other services, on the one platform.
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