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Daytona Hits $1 Billion Valuation With $60 Million Bet on the AI Agent Cloud

Daytona Platforms announced on October 23 that it raised $60 million in a Series B round at a $1 billion valuation, a bet that the next big cloud will be built for machines, not people. FirstMark Growth led the round, and the Daytona AI agent cloud now has $91 million in total funding behind it. That’s a unicorn in three years. Founder Ivan Burazin put the pitch in one sentence. “Agents don’t work like the long-lived services today’s cloud was designed for. They spin up thousands of short, stateful jobs nobody planned in advance, and they need a cloud built for that,” Burazin wrote in a blog post announcing the round. ...

October 24, 2026 · 5 min · 992 words ·