The company behind Runway
Runway
Runway is made by Runway AI, Inc., a venture-backed AI research company formed in 2018 that builds video and world models. It earns money from subscriptions to its app, from developers paying for its API, from enterprise contracts and from licensing its video models.
runway.comRead on Oct 18, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports.
Runway at a glance
- Chief executive
- Cristóbal Valenzuela
- Founded
- 2018
- Based in
- Offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Paris, Tel Aviv and Tokyo, with remote staff
- Last valuation
- $5.3 billion
- Reported February 2026
- Latest round
- Series E, $315 million
- Feb 10, 2026
- Team
- 140 people
- Ownership
- Privately held
Runway's CEO and founders
The people Runway names itself, or a news report about it names, with the job given there. Their accounts are the ones its own pages link to.
Runway funding
Announced a $315 million Series E led by General Atlantic on February 10, 2026. Before that: a $308 million Series D led by General Atlantic in April 2025 (TechCrunch), a $141 million Series C extension in 2023, a $50 million Series C in 2022, a $35 million Series B in 2021 and an $8.5 million Series A in 2020. runway.comtechcrunch.comrunway.comrunway.com
| When | Round | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 2026 | Series E | $315 million | Led by General Atlantic. With NVIDIA, Adobe Ventures, AllianceBernstein, AMD Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Mirae Asset, Emphatic Capital, Felicis, Premji Invest. runway.com |
| Apr 3, 2025 | Series D | $308 million | Led by General Atlantic. With Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Nvidia, SoftBank. techcrunch.com |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Series C extension | $141 million | With Google, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures. runway.com |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Series C | $50 million | Led by Felicis. With Amplify Partners, Lux Capital, Coatue, Compound, Madrona, Guillermo Rauch, Amjad Masad, Howie Liu, Soumith Chintala, Lukas Biewald, Jay Simons. runway.com |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Series B | $35 million | Led by Coatue. With Amplify Partners, Lux Ventures, Compound. runway.com |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Series A | $8.5 million | Led by Amplify Partners. With Lux Capital, Compound Ventures. runway.com |
Every investor named
- General Atlantic · led 2 rounds
- Amplify Partners · led a round
- Coatue · led a round
- Felicis · led a round
- NVIDIA
- Compound
- Fidelity Management & Research Company
- Lux Capital
- Adobe Ventures
- AllianceBernstein
- AMD Ventures
- Amjad Masad
- Baillie Gifford
- Compound Ventures
- Emphatic Capital
- Guillermo Rauch
- Howie Liu
- Jay Simons
- Lukas Biewald
- Lux Ventures
- Madrona
- Mirae Asset
- Premji Invest
- Salesforce Ventures
- SoftBank
- Soumith Chintala
Runway valuation
$5.3 billion
February 2026
Reported, not announced: TechCrunch gave the figure, citing a source familiar with the matter, when it covered the Series E in February 2026. Runway's own post gives no valuation. techcrunch.com
A private company’s valuation is set when it raises money and is rarely updated in public. It is not a share price.
Company details
- Ownership
- Privately held and venture-backed: its own funding announcements name General Atlantic, NVIDIA, Adobe Ventures, Fidelity, Felicis, Coatue and Amplify Partners among its investors, and its pages name no parent company. runway.com
- Founded
- 2018 runway.com
- Based in
- Offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Paris, Tel Aviv and Tokyo, with remote staff runway.com
- Team
- Roughly 140 people in February 2026, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch techcrunch.com
- Hiring
- 53 open roles: 8 commercial, 7 each in customer experience, engineering and marketing, 5 research, 4 product, 4 Runway Studios, 3 product design and 8 in other teams runway.com
- Affiliate program
- $15 for each new subscriber who buys a paid plan with the affiliate's code, which gives them 25% off. Paid monthly through Stripe; every partnership starts with a 3-month pilot, and active partners get the Max plan free. runway.com
Runway on social media and the web
- X (Twitter)twitter.com/runwayml
- LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/runwayml
- YouTubeyoutube.com/runwayml
- Instagraminstagram.com/runwayapp
- Discorddiscord.gg/invite/runwayml
- GitHubgithub.com/runwayml
- Blog · runway.com
- Changelog · runway.com
- Status page · status.runwayml.com
- Careers · runway.com
Only accounts Runway links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.
How to contact Runway
The ways Runway publishes for reaching it. We don’t list personal email addresses, guessed or otherwise.
Runway news and launches
- Oct 2, 2026Seedance 2.5 Draft Mode in Agent
- Oct 2, 2026Ideogram 4.5
- Oct 1, 2026OpenAI Dots x Runway
- Sep 29, 2026ElevenLabs V4
Media kit
The Runway media kit
Everything on this page as a designed PDF to keep or pass on: the facts, the people, the funding with a chart of every round, the products with their grades and pictures, the news and every official channel. Put together by ToolGPA, not by Runway.
Questions about Runway the company
Who is the CEO of Runway?
Cristóbal Valenzuela is Runway's co-CEO and co-founder, according to techcrunch.com, as read on Oct 18, 2026.
Who founded Runway?
Cristóbal Valenzuela, Anastasis Germanidis and Alejandro Matamala Ortiz are named as founders of Runway, which was founded in 2018.
How much funding has Runway raised?
Announced a $315 million Series E led by General Atlantic on February 10, 2026. Before that: a $308 million Series D led by General Atlantic in April 2025 (TechCrunch), a $141 million Series C extension in 2023, a $50 million Series C in 2022, a $35 million Series B in 2021 and an $8.5 million Series A in 2020.
Who are Runway's investors?
The announcements name General Atlantic, Amplify Partners, Coatue, Felicis, NVIDIA, Compound, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Lux Capital, Adobe Ventures, AllianceBernstein, AMD Ventures and Amjad Masad, and 15 more. General Atlantic, Amplify Partners, Coatue and Felicis led rounds.
When did Runway last raise money?
The most recent round announced was in Feb 10, 2026: Series E, $315 million, led by General Atlantic.
What is Runway's valuation?
$5.3 billion, as of February 2026. Reported, not announced: TechCrunch gave the figure, citing a source familiar with the matter, when it covered the Series E in February 2026. Runway's own post gives no valuation.
Who owns Runway?
Privately held and venture-backed: its own funding announcements name General Atlantic, NVIDIA, Adobe Ventures, Fidelity, Felicis, Coatue and Amplify Partners among its investors, and its pages name no parent company.
Where is Runway based?
Runway gives its base as Offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Paris, Tel Aviv and Tokyo, with remote staff.
How many people work at Runway?
Roughly 140 people in February 2026, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch.
Is Runway hiring?
53 open roles: 8 commercial, 7 each in customer experience, engineering and marketing, 5 research, 4 product, 4 Runway Studios, 3 product design and 8 in other teams.
Is Runway on social media?
Runway links to its own accounts on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Discord and GitHub. The links are on this page, taken from Runway's own site.
Does Runway have an affiliate program?
$15 for each new subscriber who buys a paid plan with the affiliate's code, which gives them 25% off. Paid monthly through Stripe; every partnership starts with a 3-month pilot, and active partners get the Max plan free.
Where this comes from
Read on Oct 18, 2026. Facts come from Runway’s own pages, news reports and investors’ own announcements; nothing from paid data sites. What no page states is left out. If something here is out of date, the company can send a correction through the vendor page.