Tal Peretz is Co-Founder of Runlayer, a pioneering enterprise AI security platform that serves as the governance and control layer for AI agents operating across corporate systems.

Tal previously served as a Staff AI Engineer at Zapier, where he co-built and launched Zapier MCP in just two days, making it Zapier's fastest-growing product, and earlier led machine learning for the Israeli Air Force.

Tal's rare combination of defense-grade ML expertise and deep AI infrastructure engineering gives him a unique lens on securing autonomous AI systems at enterprise scale.

At Runlayer, Tal co-founded the company alongside Andrew Berman and Vitor Balocco, building an MCP security platform that connected LLMs to over 30,000 tools and attracted customers including Instacart, Gusto, Opendoor, and dbt Labs within months of launch.

Runlayer has raised $42M in total funding across a $11M Seed and a $30M Series A led by Felicis and Khosla Ventures, and was named to Notable Capital's Rising in Cyber 2026 list as an emerging leader in cybersecurity innovation.