Daytona Secures $24 Million Series A Funding to Empower AI Agents with Computers

Daytona Secures $24 million in Series A Funding

On February 5, 2026, Daytona, an innovative infrastructure company specializing in programmatic components for AI agents, announced it has successfully raised $24 million in its Series A funding round. This investment was spearheaded by FirstMark Capital, with support from Pace Capital, along with existing investors like Upfront Ventures, E2VC, and Darkmode. Notably, the round also attracted strategic investments from Datadog and Figma Ventures. Furthermore, with this financing, Matt Turck, a General Partner at FirstMark, has joined the company's Board of Directors.

Daytona's mission is clear: to provide a complete computing solution for AI agents. Unlike today’s cloud infrastructure, which is primarily designed for stateless, immutable workloads, Daytona offers an innovative “sandbox” model. This model features programmable and composable computers that allow for configurability across CPU, memory, storage, GPU, networking, and operating systems on demand. Agents can now start, pause, or snapshot their workflow at any moment.

Matt Turck expressed his confidence in Daytona by stating, “We believe the next infrastructure shift is from human-centric cloud primitives to agent-native ones.” Daytona's groundbreaking approach of delivering a “computer for every agent” has set a new standard, enabling instant startup and persistent states, as well as the tools necessary for agents to write code, utilize Git, and effectively operate at scale. This infrastructure is poised to become a foundational component of the emerging agentic economy.

One of Daytona’s standout features is the capability for AI agents to launch a sandbox environment in a matter of milliseconds. This allows agents to explore various decision paths through parallel execution and ensures that their state is retained across any failures. Such functionality enables agents to undertake intricate tasks at unprecedented speeds and efficiencies that far exceed human capabilities.

In less than three months after its launch, Daytona achieved an impressive revenue run rate of $1 million, which doubled six weeks later. Its clientele ranges from early-stage startups affiliated with Y Combinator to established Fortune 100 companies, including LangChain, Turing, Writer, and SambaNova. The primary applications of Daytona's solutions revolve around code execution, computer usage, and reinforcement learning.

Kevin Zhang, General Partner at Upfront Ventures and a board member of Daytona, expressed his enthusiasm about the investment: “We’re excited to double down on our support for Daytona. The relentless passion and excellence in developer experience from their team is truly motivative, as evidenced by the active engagement and customer satisfaction observed on platforms like Slack and X.” He emphasized his belief that this investment marks just the beginning of a promising era for agent-centric infrastructure, further affirming Daytona's unparalleled focus and dedication to this sector.

However, Daytona faces an immediate challenge: keeping pace with the surging demand for its services. With current hardware constraints, the team plans to allocate the newly acquired funds toward increasing capacity and expanding into additional markets. With a current team of 20, further recruitment is critical. They also plan to concentrate efforts on sales and marketing, employing traditional engagement strategies such as meetups, hackathons, and conferences predominantly in San Francisco, where a large segment of their clientele resides.

About Daytona

Daytona is at the forefront of developing the infrastructure for the future of agentic computing through composable computers. By offering programmable and stateful sandboxes that can initialize in mere milliseconds, Daytona empowers AI agents to run code, utilize computer resources, and conduct reinforcement learning on a grand scale. Headquartered in New York City, Daytona is proudly backed by major industry players like FirstMark Capital and various champions in the developer tool ecosystem.