Daytona Reaches Reported $1 Billion Valuation With FirstMark Backing

What changed

Daytona, a startup building cloud infrastructure that gives software agents access to their own computers, has reached a reported $1 billion valuation.

FirstMark is backing the company, alongside angel investors associated with the founders of Stripe, Perplexity, Datadog and Mercor. The report does not disclose the funding size, financing terms, revenue or customer numbers.

Why it matters

The pitch is unusually concrete: each software agent gets a computer-like environment where it can operate. That points to infrastructure built around agents doing tasks, rather than simply generating text inside an existing application.

The investor list also gives Daytona a useful signal of credibility among people who have built major technology companies. But a $1 billion valuation is a bet on the importance of this infrastructure, not proof of demand or execution. The next meaningful test will be whether Daytona can turn that promise into a dependable product customers will pay to run.