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Runway

Application

Video and image editing software powered by generative AI.

Supplies Krea

Total funding$860M

Valuation$5.3B

Employees140

Founded2018

HeadquartersNew York, USA

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Runway Application Sold on its own

  Generates and edits video and images from text and image prompts in the browser.

• Runway API Model API Sold on its own

  Hosted API for video, image and audio generation models from Runway and partner labs, billed per generation.

• Runway Robotics Robot

  Robot-policy platform built on GWM-1 (General World Model): policy inference from camera observations, offline policy evaluation via simulation, synthetic data generation, and video-model licensing for custom policy training.

• Runway Video Model Licensing Developer tool

  Commercial licensing of Runway's video model weights, checkpoints and training scripts for self-hosted, on-premises or air-gapped fine-tuning and deployment, with forward-deployed researcher support.

Inside Runway

• Runway Agent AI agent Included with the parent

  AI marketing agent that generates complete ad campaigns (TikTok, Instagram, etc.), analyzes performance, runs A/B tests and auto-formats creative for different platforms and markets.

• Runway Workflows Application Included with the parent

  Node-based pipeline builder for chaining multiple Runway generative models and LLM steps into reusable, no-code creative workflows.

Inside Runway API

• Runway Characters Application Included with the parent

  Real-time conversational video avatars made from a single image, for education, customer support, training simulation and gaming use cases; integrates via React SDK, LiveKit Agents or an embeddable widget.

• Runway Model Router Developer tool Included with the parent

  Reusable Dev API configuration that automatically selects the best generative model for a request based on configured cost/latency/quality preferences; not separately billed beyond underlying model usage.

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Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 15 May 2026

Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI, TechCrunch, May 15, 2026. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Valuation

News reporting · 10 Feb 2026

AI video startup Runway raises $315M at $5.3B valuation, eyes more capable world models, TechCrunch, 2026-02-10. post-money valuation of the round dated 2026-02-10. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Employees

News reporting · 10 Feb 2026

AI video startup Runway raises $315M at $5.3B valuation, eyes more capable world models, TechCrunch, 2026-02-10. Read via stockanalysis.com's citation for this figure on 2026-08-27.

Founded

Wikipedia · 11 Sep 2026

Infobox: "2018; 8 years ago (2018)."

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