Daytona Platforms raised 1B valuation led by FirstMark Growth; total funding 24M Series A in February.
New York-based Daytona (founded ~3 years ago) builds cloud infrastructure for long-running AI agents. Founder Ivan Burazin: agents spin up thousands of short, stateful jobs unlike traditional long-lived services; Daytona provides sandboxed Linux, Windows, macOS, and GPU environments per agent.
Angels named: Patrick Collison (Stripe), Tobi Lütke (Shopify), Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity), Eric Yuan (Zoom), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Adam D’Angelo (Quora/OpenAI board), Brendan Foody (Mercor). Investors include Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next, Okta Ventures.