Runlayer Raises $30M Series A Funding Led by Felicis

The round also saw participation from Khosla Ventures. The raise brought the total amount to $42 million.

The company plans to use the funding to expand its operations and continue developing its products and technology.

Runlayer helps employees delegate real work to AI agents through a platform that combines AI enablement, governance, and control. Its customers include Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing businesses such as Instacart, Gusto, Decagon, Opendoor, dbt Labs, AngelList, and Lemonade. The company has also attracted talent from leading organizations including NVIDIA, Anthropic, Databricks, Google, Meta, Uber, and Snowflake.

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Runlayer believes the future of work will evolve from asking AI questions to managing and supervising AI agents that can complete entire tasks independently. To help companies become truly AI-native, the platform provides a central layer that manages AI agents with built-in security, monitoring, and cost controls.

Today's AI tools often force companies to choose between employee adoption and proper control. Restrict AI too much, and employees will find their own tools. Allow unrestricted use, and security teams lose visibility. Successful companies are finding ways to make AI both secure and easy to use.

Runlayer provides a trusted platform that allows employees to use and manage AI agents in their daily work safely. By making the approved solution simple and effective, it becomes the natural choice for users.

"Every employee will delegate their work to swarms of agents," said Andrew Berman, co-founder and CEO of Runlayer. "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."

"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," said Jake Storm, General Partner at Felicis.

"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," said Jon Chu, the Partner at Khosla Ventures who led both their seed and A round investments into Runlayer.

"What makes Runlayer especially exciting is that this is not just a point solution for today's AI adoption," said Vinod Khosla. "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."

About Runlayer

Founded by Andy Berman, Tal Peretz, and Vitor Balocco, Runlayer helps companies become AI-native by giving every employee an easy and secure way to delegate work to AI agents. The platform combines AI enablement, governance, and control in one system. Its customers include leading companies such as Instacart, Gusto, Decagon, Opendoor, dbt Labs, AngelList, and Lemonade.

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