Runlayer just raised $30M to solve the problem every CISO has but nobody's admitting

Your employees are already building AI agents.

Across CRM, Notion, your data warehouse, Slack.

Without your permission.

Without your visibility.

Without your control.

Felicis and Khosla just bet $30M that this is the #1 enterprise AI problem nobody solved.

Here's what Runlayer does:

It sits between your workforce and every AI tool they use.

One control plane.

Identity, permissions, policy enforcement — tied to every action an agent takes.

It catches prompt injection. Tool poisoning. Data exfiltration. Shadow MCPs you didn't know existed.

The impossible tradeoff every enterprise faces right now:

Lock AI down → employees use shadow tools anyway.

Open the gates → security teams lose all visibility.

Runlayer makes the right way the easy way.

That's the "golden path" — sanctioned, governed, cost-controlled.

Instacart, Gusto, Opendoor, dbt Labs, Lemonade are already live.

Built by people from Anthropic, NVIDIA, Cursor, Databricks, Meta.

Here's the reality your board needs to hear:

The average enterprise runs 5-20 AI clients right now.

Every one is a governance gap.

Every agent is an identity you don't control.

Every tool call is an audit trail you can't see.

Runlayer isn't building another AI product.

It's building the infrastructure that makes your AI deployment survivable.

Audit your AI tool sprawl today.

If you can't name every agent running in your environment, you already have a problem.

SOURCE: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/runlayer-raises-30m-series-a-to-help-enterprises-go-all-in-on-ai-302809271.html
VERIFIED: PR Newswire (official press release), SecurityWeek (independent coverage), Runlayer.com (company blog)
SIGNAL: Every enterprise deploying AI at scale faces the adoption-vs-control trap. Runlayer's $30M raise from Felicis and Khosla signals that AI governance infrastructure is becoming mandatory, not optional.