Daytona, an open source development environment manager, announced that it has secured $5 million in a seed funding round to spearhead its mission of democratizing development for developers globally.
The seed round was led by Upfront Ventures with participation from existing investor 500 EE, enabling Daytona to accelerate the expansion of streamlined development environments to developers worldwide. The company will further use the funds for product development and hiring for new marketing, sales, and engineering roles.
Daytona initially emerged as a solution tailored for large enterprises, enabling their developers to automate tasks, collaborate effortlessly, and enhance productivity albeit while adherent to enterprise security needs.
Recognizing the importance of extending these benefits beyond large organizations, it has open sourced key components of its enterprise platform to empower the individual developers with the same streamlined development experience, according to the company.
“Our goal is to make every developer more productive, while lowering the barrier to entry for newcomers by removing unnecessary complexities. Today, setting up a dev environment can feel like starting a car in the 1900s with many steps and points of failure,” said Ivan Burazin, co-founder and CEO of Daytona. “Daytona makes it as simple as starting a modern car today where you can just push a button and go. We help developers focus on what really matters to them, which is writing code and building innovative solutions."
For more information about this news, visit www.daytona.io.