Every knowledge worker needs a computer. Agents will need millions of dollars.
Daytona, an infrastructure company that builds programmable composable computers for AI agents, today announced that it has raised $24 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Pace Capital and existing investors Upfront Ventures, E2VC, and Darkmode. The round also includes strategic investments from Datadog and Figma Ventures. In conjunction with this financing, FirstMark General Partner Matt Turk has joined the Daytona Board of Directors.
Today’s cloud infrastructure is built for stateless, immutable production workloads, but was not designed for the creative and experimental nature of agent work. Daytona offers a “new primitive” – the sandbox. These are programmable, configurable computers that can configure CPU, memory, storage, GPU, network, and operating systems on demand and start, pause, or take snapshots at any time.
“We believe the next infrastructure shift will be from human-centric cloud primitives to agent-native,” said Matt Turck, Partner at FirstMark. “Daytona’s breakthrough is to make a ‘computer for every agent’ a reality: instant startup, persistent state, tools that agents need to write code, use Git, and run securely at scale. This is a fundamental building block of the agent economy, and we’re excited to partner with Ivan, Vedran, and the Daytona team.”
Daytona’s infrastructure allows AI agents to launch sandboxes in milliseconds, branch into parallel branches to explore multiple decision paths, and take snapshots during execution to ensure state persists across failures. This allows agents to perform complex tasks at a scale and speed never before possible, from code execution to reinforcement learning.
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The company reached a future revenue run rate of $1 million within three months and doubled that number within six weeks. Daytona’s customers range from early-stage Y Combinator companies to Fortune 100 companies such as LangChain, Turing, Writer, and SambaNova. Key use cases span code execution, computer usage, and reinforcement learning.
“We’re excited to double down on Daytona,” said Kevin Chan, Upfront Ventures’ GP and Daytona director. “The team’s relentless pace and obsession with the developer experience is truly inspiring to witness, and is best reflected in the continued activity and customer love at Daytona Slack and X. This is just the beginning of this new agent-era infrastructure opportunity, and I can’t think of a better, more focused team to tackle this than Daytona.”
Daytona’s immediate challenge is to continue meeting demand. The company said it will use the funding to add capacity and expand into new regions due to hardware constraints. Hiring is also a priority, with Daytona currently having a team of 20 people. The rest will go to sales and marketing, but the company is taking a traditional approach, holding meetups, hackathons and conferences in San Francisco, where most of its customers are still concentrated.
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