AI control platform Runlayer has successfully raised $30 million in a Series A funding round, boosting its total funding to $42 million. This significant investment underscores the growing importance of AI management solutions across enterprises.
Runlayer’s Innovative AI Control Platform
Founded in 2025 and headquartered in New York, Runlayer provides an advanced platform designed to serve as a secure control layer for AI applications within enterprise settings. The solution facilitates the monitoring of AI access and usage, empowering employees to build and deploy AI agents throughout organizational systems, while allowing these agents to undertake delegated tasks.
The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools, permissions, and contextual information necessary for effective agent management. It centralizes identity management, permission controls, and policy enforcement, delivering real-time insights into operational actions.
Addressing AI Security Concerns
Runlayer’s platform is equipped to detect and prevent numerous security threats, including prompt injections, tool poisoning, data exfiltration, output manipulation, intent drift, shadow MCPs, and unmanaged agents. By mitigating these risks, the platform directs employees towards approved tools and processes, enhancing security and compliance.
This latest funding round was spearheaded by Felicis, with additional backing from Khosla Ventures. The fresh capital injection will be utilized to bolster Runlayer’s engineering capabilities and expand its market presence.
Expansion and Adoption
Having emerged from stealth mode in November 2025, Runlayer has already seen adoption among Fortune 500 companies and rapidly growing businesses. The company’s focus is on enabling entire workforces to efficiently operate alongside AI agents, transitioning from experimentation to widespread organizational use.
Runlayer’s co-founder and CEO, Andrew Berman, emphasized the necessity for a secure and scalable approach to integrating AI across workforces, stating, “AI-maximalist companies already understand the future is not a handful of power users experimenting with agents, but entire workforces operating alongside them. That is the problem Runlayer exists to solve.”
As the company continues to expand, its focus on AI enablement and security positions it well to meet the evolving needs of enterprise environments.
