$1M ARR in 2 Months — Daytona Becomes the Fastest-Growing Infra Company Ever

In the last week of April, Daytona launched its reimagined platform: a runtime infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents. Two months later, we crossed $1M in ARR.

We believe this makes Daytona the fastest-growing infrastructure company in history, from zero to $1M ARR in just about 2 months. Here’s how we got here, and why this milestone matters.

From Human Devs to Autonomous Agents

Daytona didn’t start here.

Two years ago, we started by building for enterprise dev teams. We automated environments, simplified onboarding, and eliminated config drift. It worked, and we walked away. In February 2025, we sunsetted our old product and let go of our entire customer base.

Why? Because we saw a bigger future. A future where software isn’t just written by humans using tools, but by agents using infrastructure.

When we looked around, there was nothing built for them. No clean runtime API. No scalable agent-native sandbox. No infrastructure was built for ultra-fast spin-up, dynamic scalability, and long-running tasks.

So we built it.

What We Shipped

In just under 90 days, we built what we believe is the most complete runtime infrastructure built for agents:

• Spin-up speed: Start in ~27ms. End-to-end latency under 90ms.

• Persistent by default: Sandboxes keep running until you say stop.

• Declarative image builder: Environments defined as code, built on demand.

• Docker-native: Full support for Dockerfile, and Docker-in-Docker.

• Volumes: Shared persistent file systems between sandboxes.

• Agent toolbox: APIs for Git, terminal, file system access, and native LSP support.

• Human in the loop: web terminal when needed

It’s not a dev tool that supports AI. It’s infrastructure built for agents from the ground up.

Fastest Infra Growth in History?

Most companies don’t share how long it took them to hit $1M ARR, but we did the research and pieced it together ourselves. No infrastructure company in history has reached $1M ARR in under 3 months, and most took over a year. Until now. Daytona hit $1M ARR in just 2 months, making it the fastest-growing infrastructure company ever.

If you know one that did, let us know. Otherwise, we’re staking the claim.

Backing It Up

This isn’t a projection. It’s not a vanity headline.

Daytona passed $1M ARR in just two months, and we are sharing the screenshots to prove it.

This shows the pace of adoption since launch. We didn’t just sign up free-tier users or show vanity metrics, this represents real, sustained infrastructure usage. And it's still accelerating.

These are teams already running production workloads on Daytona, ranging from bleeding-edge AI startups to internal teams at large enterprises. The common thread? They’re all building agents, and they need runtime infrastructure that scales with them.

Why Infra Is Different

A16Z recently highlighted how top AI-native apps like Cursor and Lovable reached tens of millions in revenue within months, setting a new bar for startup velocity. As Marc Andrusko put it:

The median enterprise company in our sample set reached more than $2 million in ARR in its first year… What was once considered ‘best in class’ — the $0 to $1 million ARR ramp — is now on the lower end of growth we’re seeing.”
 — Marc Andrusko, a16z, June 2025

But these benchmarks mostly reflect customer-facing AI apps. The kind where a user can swipe a card, try a product, and start spending immediately.

Infrastructure is different.

Infra sits below the surface. To generate revenue:

• A developer first has to integrate the infra into their product,

• Then they have to launch their product,

• Only then can usage begin and revenue follow.

We call this delay infra lag: the time between developer adoption and actual monetized usage. It’s one of the reasons infrastructure companies have traditionally taken 12+ months to hit early ARR milestones, even with strong demand. Daytona skipped the lag.
From zero to $1M ARR in 2 months — before most infra companies even see their first production workloads. That’s what makes this milestone different.
We didn’t just beat the benchmarks.

We broke the model.

This Is Just the Start

The future will be built by agents. And they need infrastructure built to support them.

We’re not doing this alone.

We’re looking for the startups operating at the edge of what’s possible. If you’re building something that breaks today’s tooling, we want to hear from you. Your constraints shape our roadmap. Your pain points become features. Together, we can define the runtime layer this next generation of agents demands.

If that’s you, let’s build.

Research Sources

• AWS — https://www.aakashg.com/aws/

• Neon — https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/01/neon-a-relational-database-startup-lands-30m-investment/

• Scale AI — https://sacra.com/c/scale-ai/  & https://getlatka.com/companies/scale 

• Intercom — https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scaling-1-million-arr-strategies-employed-high-growth-govindan/

• Stripe — https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scaling-1-million-arr-strategies-employed-high-growth-govindan/

• Databricks — https://comashal.com/how-databricks-grew-from-school-project/ & https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel-klein-72703731_in-2015-databricks-was-sitting-at-just-over-activity-7267604513610518529-xK19/

• Vercel — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhctkmjffsU&t=1644s

• Auth0 — https://www.bvp.com/memos/auth0

• Twilio — https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/26/twilio-2010-board-deck-gives-peek-at-public-companys-early-days/ 

• Cloudflare — https://sites.libsyn.com/77527/saastr-638-lessons-learned-in-scaling-your-team-revenue-from-1m-arr-to-1b-with-cloudflare-cro-chris-merritt