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Connections
News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$30M
1 round on record
Latest round
$30M
Series A · Jun 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
21
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Felicis
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
43/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 24 Raised a round Series A $30M · led by Felicis · PRNewswire
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Jun 2026 $30M Felicis lead PRNewswire
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Runlayer hires

Truth index
A 90/100
Median time to fill
83 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
20%
Reposted roles
0%

Runlayer scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 20 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 20% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 83 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Runlayer securely connects AI to the enterprise stack with custom threat detection, fine-grained permissions, and complete observability for AI deployments.

Connections

List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors1
FelicisVia a fund
222 portfolio companies: n8n, Twitch, Arda and 219 more

News

News TechCrunch 2 months ago
Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits - but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders
Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing product.
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News RuntimeWire 3 months ago
Runlayer sues Rippling, alleging source-code access preceded rival AI gateway
Runlayer alleges Rippling used source code and product plans shared during an enterprise trial to build a competing MCP gateway. Rippling denies the claims.
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News TNW Artificial-intelligence 3 months ago
Runlayer sues Rippling over an alleged MCP-gateway clone
Runlayer says it let Rippling trial its AI product for a year, then Rippling built
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News TechCrunch 3 months ago
MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea
Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.
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Press release PRNewswire 3 months ago
Runlayer Files Suit Against Rippling Alleging Trade Secrets Misappropriation in SDNY Over AI Product
/PRNewswire/ -- Today in the Southern District of New York, Runlayer, the platform helping companies become AI-native through the securely managed deployment...
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Press release PRNewswire 4 months ago
Runlayer Raises $30M Series A to Help Enterprises Go All In On AI
/PRNewswire/ -- Runlayer, the platform helping companies become AI-native, today announced a $30 million Series A led by Felicis, with participation from...
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News Runlayer 7 months ago
Honestly, MCP doesn't
Garry Tan recently argued that MCP
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News Runlayer 8 months ago
Pwning OpenClaw in 50 Messages: Social Engineering Claude Opus Into Handing Over the Keys
A Claude Opus-powered OpenClaw agent with Slack and shell access was social-engineered in 50 messages to rebind its UI, install ngrok, expose the dashboard publicly, reveal its gateway token, and approve the attacker's device.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Runlayer over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
54
Postings analysed
28
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Python32%
TypeScript18%
SQL7%
Bash4%
Frameworks & libraries
FastAPI7%
LangGraph4%
OpenAI Agents SDK4%
LangChain4%
Databases
Amazon Aurora7%
PostgreSQL4%
Snowflake4%
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic100%
OpenAI100%
AWS25%
Kubernetes21%
AI & ML
LLM21%
Claude7%
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Full Runlayer tech stack 54 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
65/100
Growing
Open positions
21
5 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
58 days
faster than 23% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
21%
Product
14% ▲
Marketing
14% ▼
Leadership
7% ▲
Support
7% ▲
Design
7% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Voice Agents to stack Oct 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack Oct 2026
Added Helm to stack Oct 2026
Added Amazon EKS to stack Oct 2026
Added Terraform to stack Oct 2026
Added GitHub to stack Oct 2026
Added Red Teaming to stack Sep 2026
Added Go to stack Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack Sep 2026
Added DLP to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
New York United States
HQ
21 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 19% engineering 5% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Product, Sales
31 Bond St
seen since Sep 2025 job postings

Jobs

≈ $145k – $268k per year (Estimated) · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · New York
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
Voice Agents
Management
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≈ $136k – $290k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · New York
Model Context Protocol
dbt
AI Agents
OpenAI
Anthropic
Management
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≈ $162k – $284k per year (Estimated) · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · New York
Python
TypeScript
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
DevOps
Terraform
AWS
Kubernetes
Management
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≈ $112k – $250k per year (Estimated) · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · New York
SQL
Model Context Protocol
dbt
AI Agents
OpenAI
Anthropic
DevOps
Terraform
AWS
Kubernetes
GitHub
Management
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≈ $177k – $353k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · New York
Python
Go
TypeScript
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
Red Teaming
Management
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≈ $171k – $340k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · New York
Python
Amazon Aurora
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
OpenAI
Anthropic
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon ECS
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Kinesis
DNS
Management
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≈ $109k – $209k per year (Estimated) · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · New York
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
OpenAI
Anthropic
Design
Figma
Management
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≈ $140k – $259k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · New York
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
OpenAI
Anthropic
DevOps
IAM
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
HIPAA
DLP
Management
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≈ $143k – $265k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · New York
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
OpenAI
Anthropic
Management
Zapier
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≈ $175k – $347k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · New York
Python
FastAPI
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI
Anthropic
OpenAI Codex
DevOps
CI/CD
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
Management
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≈ $169k – $350k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · New York
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
OpenAI
Anthropic
Management
Zapier
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≈ $171k – $340k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · New York
Python
Amazon Aurora
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
OpenAI
Anthropic
DevOps
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon ECS
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Kinesis
DNS
Management
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Financials

Total raised
$30M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2026 $30M Details