The Runway media kit
Runway in a few pages, for writers, partners and anyone curious: the facts, the people, the money, the products and the news. Put together by ToolGPA, not by Runway.
Media kit
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.
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Part 01 · Company
Who they are, the facts in one place, and the people who run it
2018
The year Runway was founded, in Offices in New York
In a sentence
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.
In a paragraph
Runway was founded in 2018 and is based in Offices in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Paris, Tel Aviv and Tokyo, with remote staff. Cristóbal Valenzuela is its co-CEO and co-founder; Anastasis Germanidis and Alejandro Matamala Ortiz are co-founders. Roughly 140 people in February 2026, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch. Its last reported valuation was $5.3 billion, in February 2026.
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Cristóbal Valenzuela
Co-CEO and co-founder
Anastasis Germanidis
Co-founder and co-CEO
Alejandro Matamala Ortiz
Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer
Kamil Sindi
Chief Technology Officer
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.
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Part 02 · Funding
Every announced round, who put money in, and what it was last valued at
$5.3B
Last reported valuation, February 2026
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.
Filled: led at least one round. As each announcement names them.
Last 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.
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Part 04 · News
What they have announced lately, and every official channel
53
Open roles on Runway's careers page
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