Fly.io Doubles Down on Computers for Agents with $25M to Deliver the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure

July 24, 2026 11:00 ET | Source: FLY.IO, INC

SAN FRANCISCO, July 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AI agents are transforming how software is built and deployed. For nearly a decade, Fly.io has helped developers build and run software. Now, as agents increasingly build, operate, and deploy software alongside people, Fly.io recognizes that AI agents require a fundamentally different kind of infrastructure than the disposable execution environments that defined the first wave of AI.

Fly.io is doubling down on computers for agents — connected infrastructure designed for AI agents and the applications they build. Fly.io gives agents real computers that have durable disk drives, secure connectivity to other systems, and the ability to scale to millions of instances to power production AI applications.

Fly.io just closed its strongest quarter in company history, driven almost entirely by agent workloads. More than 37,000 customers build on Fly.io, and more than 8,000 of them are agent-native. Over the past 12 months, revenue from the company’s largest agent-native customers has grown nearly 12 times. Among the company’s largest customers overall, agent-native companies now represent approximately two-thirds of revenue. Agent-first companies like Firecrawl, Kilocode, and Plastic Labs use Fly.io to build production AI applications that run continuously and perform real work.

To accelerate this opportunity, Fly.io also announced $25 million in Series D funding co-led by Dell Technologies Capital and Intel Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, EQT, Geodesic, and YC. Martin Casado, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, will join the company’s board of directors. The investment will accelerate Fly.io’s leadership in computers for agents as organizations increasingly build and deploy production agentic AI applications.

Fly.io also announced that Scott Johnston has joined as CEO and a member of the board. Johnston previously served as CEO of Docker and held leadership roles at Puppet, Loudcloud, and Netscape. Founder Kurt Mackey will remain on Fly.io’s board and transition to an advisory role, continuing to help shape the company’s long-term technical vision.

Quotes from Moin Nadeem (Phonic), Martin Casado (a16z), Scott Johnston (CEO), and Kurt Mackey (founder) emphasize stateful, long-running compute for agents versus disposable sandboxes.