Runlayer, an AI enablement and control platform for enterprises, has closed a $30m Series A led by Felicis, with Khosla Ventures also participating, bringing total funding to $42m.
The round will support Runlayer’s mission to give every employee a governed route to delegating real work to AI agents. Existing customers include Fortune 500 companies and high-growth businesses such as Instacart, Gusto, Decagon, Opendoor, dbt Labs, AngelList and Lemonade.
The company argues that current enterprise AI tools present an untenable choice: restrict access and employees will seek out unsanctioned tools regardless, or open access without oversight and security teams are left blind. Runlayer positions itself as a middle path, providing a sanctioned route through which employees can deploy and direct agents across daily workflows, with identity management, permissions, policy enforcement, audit logs and real-time visibility attached to every action.
The platform supports the five to 20 AI clients a typical enterprise operates, spanning integrated development environments, chat clients, vertical AI applications and platforms including Salesforce Agentforce. Its security layer covers prompt injection, tool poisoning, output manipulation, data exfiltration and intent drift, while a feature called Runlayer Watch surfaces shadow AI activity and steers staff towards approved tooling rather than blanket restrictions.
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 closely with OpenAI and Anthropic. The team includes engineers and operators drawn from NVIDIA, Anthropic, Cursor, Databricks, Snowflake, Uber, Meta, Google, Block, Palo Alto Networks, Glean, Vercel, Applied Intuition and Zapier.
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.”
Khosla Ventures partner Jon Chu said, “Runlayer is one of those rare companies where the consequences of success are so large that almost nothing else matters. The team has found a powerful wedge by giving enterprises the solution they need to become AI-enabled. Their execution has been exceptional and adoption is accelerating because they are solving a problem no one else really delivers end-to-end, making them the first solution that makes it easy to become AI native versus trying to stitch together multiple point solutions.”
Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla added, “What makes Runlayer especially exciting is that this is not just a point solution for today’s AI adoption. As agents become ubiquitous, every employee will own tens or even hundreds of agents, and enterprises will need a new security fabric that governs how those agents access systems, handle data, and share information. Runlayer has the potential to become that foundational layer for the AI-enabled enterprise that every company must inevitably become to stay relevant.” Chu added, “Once it became clear Runlayer could become the agentic interaction fabric of the future, Vinod and I wanted to buy every available dollar of the round.”
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