Daytona Platforms announced Friday that it closed a $60 million Series B financing round that values the company at $1 billion. The round was led by FirstMark Growth, which also led Daytona’s $24 million Series A in February, bringing the startup’s total capital raised to $91 million.
The New York‑based company said the latest round attracted a roster of high‑profile angel investors, including Stripe co‑founder Patrick Collison, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Perplexity founder Aravind Srinivas, Zoom founder Eric Yuan, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, Quora CEO and OpenAI board member Adam D’Angelo, and Mercor founder Brendan Foody. Venture arms such as Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next and Okta Ventures also participated.
Daytona, now three years old, is developing a cloud platform designed specifically for long‑running agents, which the company says have infrastructure requirements that differ from traditional software. “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,” founder Ivan Burazin wrote in a blog post announcing the funding. He added that Daytona’s cloud gives each agent its own virtual computer, offering sandboxed environments for Linux, Windows, macOS and GPU access on a single platform.