Daytona, a NYC-based infrastructure company building programmatic, composable computers for AI agents, has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round led by FirstMark Capital.
The round also saw participation from Pace Capital and existing investors Upfront Ventures, E2VC, Darkmode, Datadog, and Figma Ventures.
Along with the funding, Matt Turck, General Partner at FirstMark, has joined Daytona’s Board of Directors.
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The company plans to use the funds to grow its operations and development work.
Daytona, an infrastructure company, builds systems that let AI agents work faster and more efficiently. Its platform can launch a sandbox in milliseconds, explore multiple decision paths in parallel, and save progress mid-task to prevent data loss. This allows AI agents to handle complex tasks—such as running code or performing reinforcement learning—at speeds and scales beyond human capabilities.
Daytona’s biggest challenge right now is meeting demand. The company is limited by hardware and plans to use the funding to increase capacity and expand into new regions. Hiring is also a priority—the team currently has 20 people. The funding will also support sales and marketing, using traditional methods like meetups, hackathons, and conferences in San Francisco, where most of its customers are still based.
Today’s cloud infrastructure is built for stable, unchanging workloads, not the experimental, creative work AI agents require. Daytona introduces a “new primitive”: the sandbox. These are programmable, flexible virtual machines where CPU, memory, storage, GPU, networking, and the operating system can be configured on demand, then started, paused, or saved at any time.
“We believe the next shift in infrastructure will move from human-focused cloud systems to agent-native ones,” said Matt Turck, Partner at FirstMark. “Daytona makes ‘a computer for every agent’ possible, with instant startup, persistent state, and the tools agents need to code, use Git, and run safely at scale. This is a key foundation for the agent-driven economy,
and we’re excited to partner with Ivan, Vedran, and the Daytona team.”
“We’re excited to continue supporting Daytona,” said Kevin Zhang, GP at Upfront Ventures and Daytona board member. “The team’s dedication and focus on developer experience are inspiring, as seen in the constant activity and positive feedback from customers on Daytona’s Slack and X. This is just the start of the new era of agent-focused infrastructure, and we can’t think of a better team than Daytona to lead it.”
The company hit a $1 million forward revenue run rate in less than three months and doubled it six weeks later. Daytona’s customers include early-stage Y Combinator startups as well as Fortune 100 companies like LangChain, Turing, Writer, and SambaNova. Its main uses are code execution, computer operations, and reinforcement learning.
About Daytona
Daytona, founded in 2023 and based in New York, provides infrastructure for the agent-driven future with composable computers. Its programmatic, stateful sandboxes launch in milliseconds, allowing AI agents to run code, use computers and perform reinforcement learning at large scale. The company is backed by FirstMark Capital and other leaders in the developer tools space.
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