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Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels

Cloud startup reaches unicorn valuation with compute environments tailored for autonomous agents

By GPU Data Hub Desk · GPU Data Hub·Editorial standards··United States

Agent infrastructure developer Daytona has reached a $1bn valuation following a financing round led by FirstMark and supported by high-profile angel investors from Stripe, Datadog, and Perplexity. The startup supplies virtual compute environments designed specifically to provide dedicated processing capacity for autonomous software agents.

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