Exclusive: Daytona, a startup building the ‘agentic cloud,’ valued at $1 billion in latest funding round
Source: Fortune ·
The startup, which raised a $60 million Series B round, argues that AI agents demand a new kind of cloud infrastructure
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AI agents need somewhere to work—and Ivan Burazin thinks the existing cloud providers aren’t the right answer. Now Burazin, the cofounder and CEO of Daytona, a San Francisco-based startup, has turned the idea of a new kind of cloud just for AI agents into a unicorn business. Daytona said Tuesday it has raised a $60 million Series B venture capital round at a $1 billion valuation. FirstMark led the round. It was joined by an A-list roster of Silicon Valley founders, including Stripe’s Patrick Collison, Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas, Quora’s Adam D’Angelo and Zoom’s Eric Yuan, plus strategic investors Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next and Okta Ventures. Burazin told Fortune that about $50 million of the round came from existing investors. The new funding brings the amount Daytona has raised to date to about $91 million. Why agents need their own computers An AI agent that writes and runs code, browses the web or operates business software needs to use a…