In Brief

Posted:

9:26 AM PDT · October 23, 2026

Image Credits: Daytona / CEO Ivan Burazin flanked by chief architect Goran Draganić (left) and CTO Vedran Jukic

Daytona Platforms announced on Friday that it had raised a $60 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation led by FirstMark Growth. The company says it has now raised a total of $91 million.

The New York-based startup has attracted not just FirstMark (which also led its $24 million Series A in February), but also a host of well-known angels in this latest round. Daytona says they include Stripe’s Patrick Collison, Shopify’s Tobi Lütke, Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas, Zoom’s Eric Yuan, Datadog’s Olivier Pomel, Quora’s Adam D’Angelo (who is also an OpenAI board member), and Mercor’s Brendan Foody.…