Runway is a cloud-based creative platform that provides AI-powered tools for editing and generating video, images, audio and 3D content. Its flagship browser-based video editor is used by millions of creators, from hobbyists to professionals at brands like CBS, Vox, Google, and Academy Award-winning films. Runway's open-source Stable Diffusion model has been widely adopted for text-to-image generation.
Runway was founded in 2018 by Cristóbal Valenzuela, Alejandro Matamala-Ortiz, and Anastasis Germanidis, who met while studying computational creativity at NYU. Valenzuela's research background is in applying computer vision to creative domains. The company has raised over $95 million to date. Runway plans to continue expanding its AI research into areas like "world models" and new creative tools for multimedia editing.
By joining Runway, you would be part of a well-funded company at the forefront of the $4 billion video editing market. As demand for video and multimedia content continues to grow, Runway aims to make professional-grade AI-powered creative tools accessible to all. Runway's strong research focus and rapid recent fundraising signal its ambitions to lead the future of AI-enabled creativity.
2018
Founded
100-250
Employees
Series C
Stage
$1.5B
Latest Valuation
$200-400M
Total Funding
Jun 29 2023
Last Fundraise
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