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Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels
Publisher description: Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor and others as angels, it says.
TechCrunch | Oct 23, 2026 | Julie Bort
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Daytona Platforms announced on Friday that it had raised a $60 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation led by FirstMark Growth. Daytona says they include 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 also an OpenAI board member), and Mercor’s Brendan Foody. Three-year-old Daytona is building a cloud specifically for long-running agents, which have different infrastructure needs than yesteryear’s software, the startup contends. “Agents don’t work like the long-lived services today’s cloud was designed for.
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