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Runway — Startup ProfileThe generative video pioneer building general world models for media and simulationHQ: New York, NY | Founded: 2018 | Employees: ~100-250 (reported ranges vary; no official count) | Stage: Private; $5.3B valuation (Feb 2026); Lionsgate minority equity (Jun 2026) | Website: https://runway.comAboutRunway is a generative-AI research and product company founded in 2018 in New York by Cristóbal Valenzuela, Alejandro Matamala, and Anastasis Germanidis, who met in the NYU Tisch ITP program. It shipped commercial text-to-video for the first time (Gen-1, Gen-2), co-created Stable Diffusion, and now produces the Gen family (Gen-3 Alpha 2024, Gen-4 2025, Gen-4.5 2025, Gen-4 Turbo/Images), the GWM-1 general-world-model family (Dec 2025), and editing tools (Aleph in-video editor, Edit Studio, Act-Two). Runway also hosts third-party models (Veo 3/3.1, Sora 2 Pro, Kling) and its own Dev API. It has raised approximately $860M across nine rounds, including a $308M Series D at ~$3B (Apr 2025) and a $315M Series E at $5.3B (Feb 2026), both led by General Atlantic, with a Lionsgate minority-equity inKey Metrics

Latest Valuation: $5.3B (Series E, Feb 2026)

Total Funding Raised: ~$860M across 9 rounds

FY2025 Revenue (est.): ~$84-90M (third-party estimates)

Flagship Product: Gen-4.5 (top text-to-video benchmark, Dec 2025)

Putative Revenues from Lionsgate: Custom-model deal (20,000-title catalog, 2024); expanded with equity 2026

Employees: ~100-250 (reported ranges vary)

Funding Rounds

Round: $2M (2018) — Angels

Round: $8.5M (2020-12) — Lux, Amplify

Round: $35M (2021-12) — Foundry, Coatue

Round: $50M (2022-12) — Foundry, Coatue

Round: $141M (2023-06) — Google, Initialized

Key People

Cristóbal Valenzuela

Anastasis Germanidis

Alejandro Matamala

Kamil Sindi

Key Competitors

Google DeepMind (Veo) —

OpenAI (Sora 2) —

Luma AI (Dream Machine) —

Kuaishou / ByteDance (Kling, Seedance) —

Timeline Highlights

2026-06-11: Lionsgate Equity

2026-02-10: Series E $315M

2025-12-11: GWM-1 World Models

2025-12-01: Gen-4.5 Launch

2025-04-03: Series D $308M