Daytona did not wake up one morning and decide to build infrastructure for AI agents. This story starts way earlier, back when Ivan Burazin and Vedran Jukić were building Codeanywhere, quietly teaching the internet what cloud development actually felt like when it worked. 13 years, nearly 3M users, countless containers later, the lesson was clear. Humans were no longer the only ones writing code. And the tools we gave machines were embarrassing.
Fast forward to February 5, 2026. Daytona Platforms, Inc. just locked in a $24M Series A led by FirstMark Capital. New York on paper, Split and Zagreb in the engine room, and a product that treats AI agents like first class citizens instead of unpaid interns. Matt Turck joins the board, which is what happens when infrastructure stops being theoretical and starts printing real usage. Pace Capital steps in, while Upfront Ventures, E2VC, and Darkmode come back because momentum is louder than pitch decks. Strategic checks from Datadog and Figma Ventures are not charity. They are pattern recognition.
Ivan Burazin, CEO, is not selling vibes. Vedran Jukić, CTO, is not chasing buzzwords. Goran Draganić, Chief Architect, is not rebuilding the same sandbox with a prettier UI. Daytona gives every agent an actual computer. Stateful. Persistent. Forkable. Snapshottable. Millisecond launch times. Sub-90ms to create a sandbox. This is not cloud cosplay. This is what happens when infrastructure is built for machines that think in branches, retries, and parallel outcomes instead of request response theater.
The numbers are loud without being obnoxious. $1M in forward ARR in under 3 months, then $2M 6 weeks later. Customers range from scrappy YC teams to Fortune 100s who do not experiment unless something already works. LangChain, Turing, Writer, SambaNova are not testing toys. They are running workloads that break traditional assumptions about execution, security, and speed.
Security is not a slide here. SOC 2 Type I. HIPAA. Air gapped deployments. Deterministic execution through APIs instead of scraping terminal output like it is 2012. Open source under Apache 2.0, because trust is easier to earn when the code is right there. 2,000+ GitHub stars in 48 hours tells you developers recognized their own pain in this thing.
There is a reason FirstMark Capital talks about a computer for every agent. The agent economy does not scale on borrowed infrastructure. It needs purpose built sandboxes that can pause, fork, remember, and move fast without burning everything down. Daytona is not chasing hype cycles. Daytona is building the track, the pit crew, and the engine, and inviting everyone else to see how fast they can really go.
