Runlayer, an enterprise AI enablement and agent governance platform, has secured $30m in a Series A funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $42m.
The round was led by Felicis, which pre-empted the raise, with participation from Khosla Ventures. The investment follows an $11m seed round secured from the same two investors when the company emerged from stealth in November 2025.
Runlayer‘s customer base already spans Fortune 500 organisations and high-growth businesses, including Instacart, Gusto, Decagon, Opendoor, dbt Labs, AngelList and Lemonade. The company has drawn talent from companies including NVIDIA, Anthropic, Cursor, Databricks, Snowflake, Uber, Meta, Google, Block, Palo Alto Networks, Glean, Vercel, Applied Intuition and Zapier.
The platform is designed to resolve a tension that has long frustrated enterprise technology and security teams: allowing employees to benefit from AI agents without compromising visibility or control. Rather than forcing businesses to choose between adoption and oversight, Runlayer positions itself as a single interoperability layer across a company’s entire AI stack, covering identity, permissions, policy enforcement, audit logs and real-time monitoring. The platform supports the five to twenty AI clients a typical enterprise uses, including IDEs, chat interfaces, vertical AI applications, independent agents and platforms such as Salesforce Agentforce.
For individual employees, the platform provides a sanctioned path to working with AI agents across everyday tools, including CRM systems, Atlassian, Notion, meeting notes and data warehouses. For security and IT teams, a feature called Runlayer Watch surfaces shadow AI activity, such as unmanaged agents, unapproved MCPs, skills and plugins, routing staff towards approved tooling rather than relying on blanket bans. The platform also provides full-session observability across every agent call, with the ability to detect prompt injection, tool poisoning, output manipulation, data exfiltration and intent drift.
Runlayer is led by co-founder and CEO Andrew Berman, a three-time founder who previously served as director of AI at Zapier, where he worked in close partnership with OpenAI and Anthropic.
Runlayer co-founder and CEO Andrew Berman said, “Every employee will delegate their work to swarms of agents. Not as a novelty, and not as a side tool, but as a core part of how work gets done. AI-maximalist companies already understand the future is not a handful of power users experimenting with agents, but entire workforces operating alongside them. The challenge is that most companies still do not have a secure, scalable way to make that possible. That is the problem Runlayer exists to solve.”
Felicis general partner Jake Storm said, “Runlayer is solving one of the most important enterprise problems of this moment: how to adopt AI at scale without losing control. This is the right team, in the right market, at the right time, which is why Felicis pre-empted this round. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find a team that more deeply understands the entire ecosystem. When we introduced Runlayer to AI teams and CISOs in our network, the response was immediate and overwhelming; this is exactly the infrastructure enterprises have been waiting for. We’re proud to have led the series A and to double down on Runlayer as the golden path for every workforce going AI-native.”
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