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Runlayer raised a $30 million Series A led by Felicis, with Khosla Ventures participating, Fortune<\/em> learned exclusively. Felicis preempted the round which brought Runlayer\u2019s total capital raised to $42 million.<\/p>\n

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The startup, which launched out of stealth just seven months ago with an $11 million seed from the same two investors, is tackling one of enterprise tech\u2019s most pressing problems. Companies are deploying AI agents everywhere, but no one has a reliable way to see what those agents are doing, control what they access, or stop them from going rogue. Last year, one of Runlayer\u2019s customers discovered that an agent had blown through its entire annual AI-compute budget in a single weekend, running in a loop.<\/p>\n

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Runlayer is essentially a corporate app store and control room rolled into one. Employees can plug in any AI tool\u2014OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Anthropic\u2019s Claude, Salesforce\u2019s Agentforce, custom-built agents\u2014and get a pre-approved way to use them, with company data already connected and guardrails already set. IT and security teams, meanwhile, get a single dashboard showing exactly what every AI agent in the organization is doing, what data it touched, and how much it cost. The platform also surfaces \u201cshadow AI\u201c\u2014tools employees are using without their company\u2019s knowledge\u2014a problem some reports suggest could be as high as 78% of enterprise AI users.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery 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.\u201d CEO Andrew Berman told Fortune<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Berman, a three-time founder, previously cofounded Nanit\u2014the AI-powered baby monitor that as of 2024 was doing an estimated $100 million-plus in revenue\u2014and Vowel, an AI video conferencing platform that raised $17.8 million before being acquired by Zapier in 2023. He then served as Zapier\u2019s director of AI, working directly with teams at OpenAI and Anthropic.<\/p>\n

He founded Runlayer 10-and-a-half months ago. \u201cI signed my term sheet the day I had my first child. I think I was in the hospital. We just kept seeing so much enterprise pull, and every company struggling with the same problem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Since then, Runlayer has signed more than 12 unicorn customers\u2014including Instacart, Gusto, Opendoor, dbt Labs, and AngelList\u2014and expanded into financial services, where a Fortune 500 bank is now using Runlayer to monitor more than 100,000 employees\u2019 AI activity across 200,000 devices. Half of Gusto\u2019s company uses the product daily.<\/p>\n

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Runlayer\u2019s timing isn\u2019t incidental. Gartner projects that 40% of enterprise applications will include AI agents by year-end 2026\u2014up from less than 5% in 2025\u2014and agentic AI spending is on pace to hit $201.9 billion this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The agentic AI security market alone is valued at $55 billion in 2026, projected to reach $888 billion by 2035. The space is getting crowded\u2014Wiz, Palo Alto Networks, and identity giant Okta are all building agent governance capabilities. Felicis GP Jake Storm, who led both rounds, isn\u2019t dismissing the competition, and is instead reframing it. \u201cA lot of people view governance as a tax,\u201d Storm told Fortune<\/em>. \u201cThis is actually the unlock. It flips it totally on its head.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He sees Runlayer as structurally different from the encroaching incumbents: \u201cThis is a Switzerland business. No platform can own this\u2014a neutral, cross-provider control layer is absolutely critical if we actually believe in the future of agents performing work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Berman won\u2019t disclose revenue figures, but says the company is nine months ahead of the product roadmap it presented to investors at seed and has expanded from an MCP\u2014a relatively new open standard that lets AI agents plug into external tools and data\u2014focused product into a full interoperability layer spanning agents, plugins, and skills across the enterprise stack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need a single pane of glass that watches everything, controls and has visibility into everything that\u2019s going on,\u201d Berman said. \u201cWho watches the watchman? That\u2019s what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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