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