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Daytona

“Can a sub-90ms AI sandbox infrastructure become the default secure execution layer for autonomous AI agents?”

Founded2022
HQNew York, NY, USA
Latest roundSeed, June 2024
IndustryInfrastructure / AI Sandbox

The story

Founded around 2022, Daytona initially positioned itself as an enterprise-grade alternative to GitHub Codespaces, focused on self-hosted and standardized development environments. By 2025–2026 the company pivoted toward AI infrastructure, rebranding its core product as 'secure and elastic infrastructure for running AI-generated code' — sandboxes that spin up in under 90ms for AI agent workflows. The integration with Stripe Projects in April 2026 signals further evolution: positioning Daytona as the trusted compute layer for autonomous AI agents that need to provision and run code without human intervention.

Last 12 months

2026-04

Daytona Sandboxes became available through Stripe Projects, using Stripe as a trust layer for AI agents to autonomously provision compute credentials.

2026-04

CVE-2026-31431 ('Copy Fail') Linux kernel vulnerability publicly disclosed and fully remediated by Daytona.

Product timeline

2022

Recognized opportunity in standardized remote development environments as enterprises struggled with complex dev environment management.· pivot

2024

Raised Seed round led by Upfront Ventures; positioned as enterprise-grade GitHub Codespaces alternative for self-hosted, secure, standardized development environments.· banking

2026

Launched Daytona Sandboxes integration with Stripe Projects, enabling AI agents to autonomously provision sandboxes and credentials via Stripe as a trust layer.· pivot

The stack

1 layer disclosed in Daytona’s embedded-finance stack

Payments / PSP

Stripe

Accounting gap: none

Daytona — frequently asked

Who is Daytona's payment processor?

Daytona processes payments through Stripe.

Where is Daytona headquartered?

Daytona is founded in 2022 and headquartered in New York, NY, USA.

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