# Runlayer

> Runlayer is a New York enterprise AI company that gives employees a governed path to use AI agents while giving security, IT, and platform teams identity controls, policy enforcement, runtime threat detection, audit trails, and usage visibility. Its model-neutral platform spans a catalog and gateway for MCP servers, native agent infrastructure, shadow-AI discovery, and integrations with the AI clients and business systems companies already use.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** New York City, United States
- **Founders:** Andrew Berman (CEO & Co-Founder), Tal Peretz (Co-Founder), Vitor Balocco (Chief Architect & Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** About 40 employees as of mid-2026; LinkedIn lists 11-50 employees, while supplied company data lists 51.
- **Products:** Runlayer Platform, MCP Gateway and Catalog, Runlayer Watch, Runlayer Guard, Runlayer Agents
- **Notable:** Launched from stealth in November 2025 with $11 million and dozens of customers, including eight unicorns or public companies., Raised a $30 million Series A in June 2026, bringing publicly announced funding to $42 million according to the company., Gusto rolled Runlayer out to 3,000+ knowledge workers in four weeks and managed 84 MCP servers through the platform.

## Products & services

- **Runlayer Platform** — Enterprise command-and-control plane for approved MCPs, skills, plugins, agents, identities, policies, observability, ROI visibility, and spend.
- **MCP Gateway and Catalog** — Governed access to more than 18,000 MCP servers and internal tools across major AI clients, with approval workflows and central audit trails.
- **Runlayer Watch** — Shadow-AI discovery and enforcement that finds unmanaged AI clients, MCP servers, skills, and plugins across employee devices.
- **Runlayer Guard** — Inline runtime security that scans agent tool calls for threats such as prompt injection, tool poisoning, command injection, and unauthorized access.
- **Runlayer Agents** — Infrastructure for creating and running governed, hosted or background agents with scoped identities and permissions.
- **Runlayer Embed** — A headless API for putting Runlayer's governed catalog and control capabilities into other product surfaces.

## Achievements

- Launched from stealth in November 2025 with $11 million and dozens of customers, including eight unicorns or public companies.
- Raised a $30 million Series A in June 2026, bringing publicly announced funding to $42 million according to the company.
- Gusto rolled Runlayer out to 3,000+ knowledge workers in four weeks and managed 84 MCP servers through the platform.
- Jane App reported organization-wide adoption among 800+ knowledge workers in two weeks, with 36 MCP servers managed through Runlayer.
- Homebase extended governed AI workflows to 400+ employees in under five months and reported 27,000 human connector calls.
- Achieved the R1-R9 Extended Conformance tier of the AARM autonomous-agent runtime security specification.
- Named to the Rising in Cyber 2026 list.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Added support for running Runlayer Agents on open-source models served through Baseten inference.
- **2026-06** — Raised a $30 million Series A led by Felicis with participation from Khosla Ventures.
- **2026-05** — Collaborated with Anthropic on MCP Tunnels for outbound-initiated access from Claude to systems behind enterprise firewalls.
- **2026-04** — Announced AARM partnership and Extended Conformance R1-R9.
- **2026-03** — Became a founding partner of 1Password's agent security platform.
- **2026-01** — Launched the official Box MCP partnership and shipped product update 1.25.0.

## Links

- Website: https://www.runlayer.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/runlayer/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/runlayer

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Last updated: 2026-08-21