Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels
TechCrunchby Julie Bort
Context: Daytona is building a cloud that gives every agent its own computer; it says founders of Stripe, Perplexity, Datadog and Mercor are angels.
From TechCrunch: Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor, and others as angels, it says.
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