Daytona

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Funding

Daytona raises $60M Series B at $1B valuation, Croatia's third unicorn

Sandboxes that boot in 60 milliseconds give AI agents a head start that traditional cloud providers can't match.

• Daytona raised a $60 million Series B led by FirstMark Growth at a $1 billion valuation, making it Croatia's third unicorn after Infobip and Rimac.
• Founded in 2023 by Ivan Burazin, Goran Draganić and Vedran Jukić, Daytona builds isolated virtual 'sandboxes' where AI agents can run code and execute tasks without touching a company's real systems.
• About $50 million of the new round came from existing backers, with new money from an angel roster including Stripe's Patrick Collison, Shopify's Tobi Lütke and Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas, plus strategic investors Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next and Okta Ventures.
• FirstMark also led Daytona's $24 million Series A in February 2026, bringing the company's total funding to roughly $91 million in under a year.
• Daytona's revenue run rate grew 25-fold between January and September 2026, with the company citing average monthly growth near 51%.
• Most of the new capital will go toward buying and renting servers amid rising chip prices, with the rest funding hiring to grow the team from 35 to about 50-60 by year end.
• Daytona's jump to unicorn status reflects a broader shift in cloud infrastructure spending toward agent-native execution layers, separate from inference and observability tools, as AI systems move from answering questions to autonomously performing tasks at scale.