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Daytona

Category: AI Infrastructure

Daytona builds programmatic, composable sandboxes (computers) for AI agents — secure, elastic infrastructure for running AI-generated code and agent workflows. Daytona was founded in 2023. The company is led by Ivan Burazin. Based in New York City, New York, United States. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $31M. Latest round: Series A. Key investors include FirstMark Capital, Upfront Ventures, Pace Capital, E2VC, Darkmode, 500 Global, Datadog (strategic), Figma Ventures (strategic), Tiny.vc, Silicon Gardens, Firestreak Ventures.

Founded
2023
Headquarters
New York City, New York, United States
Team size
11-50
Total funding
$31M

Value proposition

Programmatic, stateful sandboxes that agents can start, pause, fork, snapshot, resume, and destroy on demand — purpose-built for agentic workloads rather than stateless production workloads.

Products and solutions

Daytona Sandboxes (programmatic, composable computers for AI agents with sub-90ms creation), Daytona SDKs (Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, Java), Daytona API & CLI, Computer Use sandboxes (Linux, macOS, Windows), Stateful environment snapshots, Git integration, Language Server Protocol support

Unique value

Daytona provides composable computers for AI agents — not containers optimized for stateless services, but full stateful environments that launch in under 90ms, fork into parallel execution paths, persist state across failures, and scale to millions of concurrent instances.

Target customer

AI agent developers and platforms; enterprises running agent workloads; Y Combinator startups to Fortune 100 enterprises; companies building code execution, computer use, and reinforcement learning applications

Industries served

AI/ML, Cloud Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, AI Agents, Reinforcement Learning

Technology advantage

Sub-90ms sandbox creation; stateful environment snapshots enabling persistent agent operations; native Git and LSP integration; multi-language SDKs (Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, Java); Computer Use across Linux/macOS/Windows; massive parallelization; OCI/Docker compatibility; dedicated kernel per sandbox with full isolation

How they differentiate

Unlike competitors (E2B, Modal, Vercel Sandbox) that optimize for ephemeral/stateless workloads, Daytona focuses on stateful, long-lived environments with fork/snapshot/resume capabilities. Daytona is cloud-neutral (works across AWS, GCP, Azure) and provides full composable computers (not just code execution boxes) with dedicated kernels, filesystems, and network stacks.

Main competitors

E2B (ephemeral sandboxes for AI agents), Modal (serverless GPU platform with sandbox capabilities), Vercel Sandbox (Firecracker microVM-based sandboxes within Vercel AI Cloud)

Key partnerships

Datadog (strategic investor & integration partner), Figma Ventures (strategic investor), Cognition (Devin Outposts partner — run Devin on Daytona sandboxes), Anthropic (Claude Managed Agents self-hosted sandbox launch partner), Braintrust, ElevenLabs, Fireworks AI, WorkOS, CodeRabbit, CopilotKit

Notable customers

LangChain, Turing, Writer, SambaNova, early-stage Y Combinator companies, Fortune 100 enterprises (specific names undisclosed)

Major milestones

2023-11: Raised $2M Pre-Seed, 2024-03: Open-sourced Daytona under Apache 2.0 (2,000+ GitHub stars in 48 hours), 2024-06: Raised $5M Seed led by Upfront Ventures, 2025-04: Pivoted from dev environment manager to AI agent runtime ("From Dev Environments to AI Runtimes"), 2026-02: Raised $24M Series A at $125M valuation led by FirstMark Capital, Reached $1M forward revenue run rate in under 3 months, doubled in 6 weeks, 72.1k GitHub stars on main repository

Growth metrics

$1M forward revenue run rate in under 3 months; doubled to $2M+ 6 weeks later; 72.1k GitHub stars; 5.7k GitHub forks; customers span YC startups to Fortune 100 enterprises

Market positioning

Positioned as the default execution layer for AI agents — building the infrastructure primitive for the agentic economy. Reached $1M forward revenue run rate in under 3 months, doubled it 6 weeks later. $125M post-money valuation at Series A.

Geographic focus

Global (US-headquartered with Croatian founding team; strong presence in US and Europe)

About Ivan Burazin

Co-founded Codeanywhere (cloud IDE pioneer, 2009); founded Shift developer conference (acquired by Infobip); Chief Developer Experience Officer at Infobip (Croatia's first unicorn); University of Split alumni.

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