Runway
Updated: February 10, 2026
Founders: Anastasis Germanidis, Alejandro Matamala, Cristóbal Valenzuela Barrera
Country: USA | Funding: $859.5M (+)
Founded: 2018
Website: https://runwayml.com
Runway is a service for generating artistic videos from text prompts or graphic templates (video-to-video, image-to-video). The company uses diffusion models, visual transformers, temporal consistency methods (to ensure character/environment consistency across scenes). The service also offers video editing tools: object removal, background and lighting changes, stylization, scene appearance management, cropping and more. It provides specialized tools 3d-room dressing, virtual outfit trying, video-to-animation, storyboard-to-animation. Runway is used by professional filmmakers, artists, YouTube content creators and marketers. The service provides an API for business and a mobile app for a general audience. Runway also develops own 3D-world model that works through frame-by-frame prediction, creating a simulation with an understanding of physics and how the world actually behaves over time
Founded: 2018
Website: https://runwayml.com
Runway is a service for generating artistic videos from text prompts or graphic templates (video-to-video, image-to-video). The company uses diffusion models, visual transformers, temporal consistency methods (to ensure character/environment consistency across scenes). The service also offers video editing tools: object removal, background and lighting changes, stylization, scene appearance management, cropping and more. It provides specialized tools 3d-room dressing, virtual outfit trying, video-to-animation, storyboard-to-animation. Runway is used by professional filmmakers, artists, YouTube content creators and marketers. The service provides an API for business and a mobile app for a general audience. Runway also develops own 3D-world model that works through frame-by-frame prediction, creating a simulation with an understanding of physics and how the world actually behaves over time
