Daytona, a startup building what it calls the “agentic cloud,” has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $1 billion, marking its arrival as a unicorn just three years after its founding.
The round was led by FirstMark and drew backing from a notable roster of individual Silicon Valley founders, including Stripe’s Patrick Collison, Shopify’s Tobi Lutke, Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas, Quora’s Adam D’Angelo and Zoom’s Eric Yuan, alongside strategic investors Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next and Okta Ventures.
Founded in 2023 by Ivan Burazin, Goran Draganic and Vedran Jukic, Daytona set out to automate software development environments for large enterprises before pivoting its pitch toward a broader thesis: that AI agents, not just human developers, require their own purpose-built cloud infrastructure to operate effectively.
The company's core product is a system of "sandboxes," isolated virtual machines that allow AI agents to write code, browse the web and run software autonomously in persistent, contained environments, a model Daytona argues addresses needs that traditional cloud infrastructure wasn't designed to handle.
The new funding round brings Daytona's total capital raised to roughly $91 million, a relatively modest sum compared with many AI infrastructure startups that have reached similar valuations, underscoring strong investor conviction in the agentic-cloud category despite the company's lean fundraising history.
Daytona's rise also marks a notable milestone for Croatia's startup scene, with the company emerging as one of the country's few unicorns as global investors increasingly look beyond traditional tech hubs for infrastructure plays tied to the buildout of autonomous AI systems.
