Daytona Reaches $1B Valuation on $60M Raise for AI Agent Cloud Infrastructure

Daytona secured a $60M Series B funding round led by FirstMark at a $1B valuation, bringing its total raised capital to about $91M. The startup provisions cloud-based virtual machines for AI agents, claiming it can configure a new sandbox in 60 milliseconds by resuming pre-distributed snapshots on server drives. Daytona's customer base includes OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, and Cursor, with AI data company Snorkel having provisioned over one million sandboxes on the platform. CEO Ivan Burazin projects an impending server CPU shortage, arguing that while GPUs train the models, massive CPU compute is required to run the virtual environments where agents actually execute tasks. "The inference clouds is where the agent thinks, and our cloud is where the agent works." — Ivan Burazin