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$50K to Build Future AI? Join the Daytona Startup Grid
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$50K to Build Future AI? Join the Daytona Startup Grid
Ivan Burazin
CEO & Co-Founder
# Contents
Fuel Your Startup's Growth
Built on Proven Community Foundations
Why Do We Do It
Perfect for AI-First Startups
How to Apply
Ready to Ignite Your Startup?
W
e're thrilled to announce the launch of
Daytona Startup Grid
, our new startup program designed to empower early-stage companies building the future of AI and developer tools. No strings attached.
Fuel Your Startup's Growth
Daytona Startup Grid
provides ambitious startups with immediate access to our cutting-edge AI sandboxing infrastructure:
Instant Access
: $10K in Daytona credits upon acceptance
Scalable Support
: Easy pathway to unlock up to $50K as your needs grow
Partner Fast Track
: $25K If you come through one of our partners VCs and accelerators + pathway to another $50K
Lightning-Fast Infrastructure
: Leverage our sub-90ms sandbox creation and secure runtime environments
Technical Guidance
: Direct access to our engineering team for implementation support
Built on Proven Community Foundations
Daytona Startup Grid builds directly on the success and insights gained from our Daytona Pacers program. Through Pacers, we've cultivated a vibrant community of advocates and technical leaders who have helped shape our understanding of what startups truly need to succeed in the AI space.
Having access to a startup program that offers free credits for a key infrastructure product, such as ours, can be absolutely game-changing for an early-stage startup. These credits remove a significant cost barrier, allowing founders to focus their limited resources on product development, customer acquisition, and market fit rather than infrastructure expenses. Beyond the financial relief, this program is accelerating a startup’s ability to experiment, scale, and iterate. In a stage where every dollar and every hour matters, this kind of support can mean the difference between struggling to launch and confidently building toward growth.
Why Do We Do It
If you're a company building tech infrastructure like us and you don’t have a startup program, you're leaving massive strategic value on the table. Sure, the obvious win is hooking early-stage companies before they scale - today’s scrappy team of three could be tomorrow’s unicorn spending millions on our stack.
But it goes deeper.
Startups are innovation engines: they build bleeding-edge solutions, break things in ways enterprise clients never will, and push your product into new, uncharted territory. That feedback loop is gold (as Banya would say:
That's gold, Jerry! Gold!
). We’re not just seeding future revenue - we’re fueling your own roadmap, discovering unconventional use cases, co-creating with the next wave of market shapers, and opening doors to joint ventures, co-investments, and long-tail industry plays you wouldn't dream up in-house. It’s not charity, it’s not a sales hook - it’s a strategic growth machine with foresight; on steroids.
Perfect for AI-First Startups
Whether you're building AI agents, developing LLM-powered applications, or creating developer tools for the AI ecosystem, Daytona Startup Grid provides the ideal foundation with:
Isolated environments for secure AI-generated code execution
Massive parallelization for concurrent AI workflows
Stateful operations with environment snapshots
Pay-per-use model that scales efficiently from zero
How to Apply
Joining Daytona Startup Grid takes less than 5 minutes. Simply:
Fill out our straightforward application form at
daytona.io/startups
(you need a link to your deck, the rest will take you less than 2 mins)
Share your 100-word startup story (we accept AI-generated text; wink wink)
Our team will review the application and respond asap (test us how quick are we in getting back to you )
Ready to Ignite Your Startup?
Don't let infrastructure challenges and cost slow down your innovation. Apply today and leverage Daytona's powerful AI runtime infrastructure to drive your startup's success.
Get up to $50K in credits
Apply to Daytona and receive up to $50K in credits to build your AI startup on our secure, lightning-fast infrastructure. Get $10K instantly upon approval.
Apply Now
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Ivan Burazin
CEO & Co-Founder
Ivan Burazin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Daytona, driven by a mission to streamline the developer experience. His journey in dev tools began with Codeanywhere and continued with the establishment of the Shift developer conference, now a leading global event. After serving as Chief Developer Experience Officer at Infobip, Ivan's vision for Daytona emerged: to simplify development with instantly ready, scalable, and secure environments.
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