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Runlayer

Backed byKhosla Ventures

About Runlayer

The company is building the infrastructure layer that makes Model Context Protocol (MCP) enterprise-ready. It positions itself as the security and management platform that sits between AI agents and company systems and data. Its goal is to address enterprise security, governance, authentication, and audit-trail gaps in MCP deployments.

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Company at a glance

IndustryAI/ML
Team Size11-50
StageSeed
Founded2025
Location
New York, United States
Investors
Felicis Ventures ·Khosla Ventures
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About the Team

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.University of Pennsylvania
  2. 2.Poznan University of Technology
  3. 3.Harvard University
  4. 4.The London School of Economics and Political Science
  5. 5.University of California, Los Angeles

Team Worked At

  • NVIDIA
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Snowflake
  • CyberArk
  • Booz Allen Hamilton

Funding History

SeedNov 2025

$11M

raised

AI agent security startup Runlayer raised an $11 million seed round from Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois and Felicis.

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