Observed Signal · Oct 20, 2026 · Funding · Source: Tech.eu (European Tech & Deals) · Impact: 4/5 · Sentiment: Positive
Daytona Raises $60M Series B at $1B Valuation for AI Agent Cloud
Daytona, a provider of cloud infrastructure for AI agents, has secured $60 million in a Series B funding round, valuing the company at $1 billion and bringing total funding to $91 million. The round was led by FirstMark, with participation from several prominent tech executives and institutional investors. Daytona's platform offers secure, isolated compute environments for AI agents to execute code and perform tasks, addressing the infrastructure demands of autonomous AI systems. The company reports a 25-fold increase in revenue run rate between January and September, and counts Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor, and others among its customers. The new capital will be used to expand its agent cloud platform, scale computing infrastructure, and grow its international team.
This significant funding round highlights the growing infrastructure demands of autonomous AI agents, a key trend for AdTech as AI-driven advertising and automation become more prevalent.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Daytona raised $60 million in Series B funding at a $1 billion valuation, bringing total funding to $91 million.
- The round was led by FirstMark, with participation from Patrick Collison, Adam D'Angelo, Brendan Foody, Tobi Lütke, Olivier Pomel, Aravind Srinivas, and Eric Yuan.
- Daytona reported a 25-fold increase in its revenue run rate between January and September.
- Customers include Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor, and Cognition.
- Daytona plans to use the funding to expand its agent cloud platform and grow its team in San Francisco, Croatia, and Singapore.
Connected Companies & Entities
10 Entities mapped“The round was led by FirstMark”
“The company provides infrastructure to Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor and Cognition”
“The company provides infrastructure to Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor and Cognition”
“The company provides infrastructure to Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor and Cognition”
“The company provides infrastructure to Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor and Cognition”
“The company provides infrastructure to Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cursor and Cognition”
“customer base also includes Meta, Cohere, Mercor, Handshake, Surge AI, SambaNova, Postman, Bolt.new, n8n and Clay”
“customer base also includes Meta, Cohere, Mercor, Handshake, Surge AI, SambaNova, Postman, Bolt.new, n8n and Clay”
“customer base also includes Meta, Cohere, Mercor, Handshake, Surge AI, SambaNova, Postman, Bolt.new, n8n and Clay”
“customers including Snorkel and Trajectory using its infrastructure to reduce processing times”
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Daytona: Composable Computers for AI Agents
Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin discusses the company's pivot from browser-based developer environments to composable, stateful sandboxes built for autonomous AI agents. Daytona runs its stack on bare metal with a custom scheduler to deliver very fast startup and snapshot-based state (single sandbox ~60ms; 50,000 sandboxes in ~75s). The firm reports one customer running roughly 850,000 sandboxes per day and said RL/eval workloads rose from near-zero to about 50% of usage within months. Burazin explains why agents need persistent, resizable computers (including Windows/macOS support), why Kubernetes and managed VMs often fall short for these workloads, and why features like CLI access, dynamic resizing, and low-latency local storage matter. The company maintains an open-source core (AGPL v3 for the sandbox product) and views the emerging agent-compute market as a large, rapidly growing infrastructure category.
Boxd Raises $2M for AI Coding Agent Cloud Infrastructure
Dutch startup Boxd has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round to develop its cloud computing infrastructure designed for developers and AI coding agents. The round was led by BlueYard Capital, with participation from OVNI Capital, Antler, S20, Script Capital, and business angels from General Intuition and other tech companies. Boxd provides hardware-isolated virtual machines that allow AI agents to execute code, run tests, and manage workflows, with features like snapshotting and live-forking in under 100 milliseconds. The company aims to address the infrastructure demands of parallel AI coding agents, offering persistent, secure environments compared to traditional containers. The funding will be used to expand the team and further develop its custom virtualization engine.
Together AI Raises $800M Series C at $8.3B Valuation
Together AI, an AI neocloud that rents Nvidia GPU clusters and other AI-specific infrastructure, raised $800 million in a Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation. The round was led by Aramco Ventures with participation from firms including Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, Nvidia, March Capital, Pegatron and SentinelOne’s S Ventures. Together AI, founded in 2022, reported annual bookings of more than $1.15 billion in its last quarter and says it has thousands of paying customers (including Cursor, Cognition and Decagon). The financing follows prior rounds including a $305 million Series B at a $3.3 billion valuation and a $102.5 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins in 2023.
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