Runlayer has raised US$30m in a Series A led by Felicis, with Khosla Ventures returning, seven months after it left stealth on an US$11m seed from the same two firms. That takes total funding to US$42m.
Fortune reported that Vinod Khosla wanted "every available dollar" of the round. The conviction tracks a Gartner forecast Runlayer leans on: 40% of enterprise applications will embed AI agents by the end of 2026, up from under 5% a year ago. Runlayer sells the unglamorous middle layer, one console to see which agents, MCP servers and embedded copilots are reaching which data, enforce policy on them, and shut a rogue one down. Early customers include Instacart, Gusto, dbt Labs and Opendoor.
The risk is that Wiz, Palo Alto Networks and Okta are wiring the same governance hooks into platforms enterprises already pay for, so Runlayer is betting a neutral, cross-provider layer beats a bundled one.