Runway Timeline

Events

• 2026-09-30 - Research Publication - Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for real robots - Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are testing the model on their hardware, including the Standard Bots RO1 arm. The model learns robot actions from large-scale video pretraining combined with robot interaction data. Public weights are planned in the… - source: runway.com
• 2026-02-26 - Org Change - Runway appoints Anastasis Germanidis co-CEO - Kamil Sindi became chief technology officer and Michelle Kwon became chief operating officer. Anna Chalon became chief people officer and Jamie Umpherson became chief creative officer. Germanidis had led the company’s research; Runway described the co-CEO… - source: runway.com
• 2026-02-10 - Funding - Runway secures $315 million for world-model development in Series E - Participants included NVIDIA, Adobe Ventures, AllianceBernstein, AMD Ventures and Fidelity Management & Research Company. Mirae Asset, Emphatic Capital, Felicis and Premji Invest also joined the financing. The capital supports pretraining and new products… - source: runway.com
• 2025-04-03 - Funding - Runway finances Studios expansion with General Atlantic-led Series D - Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, NVIDIA and SoftBank participated alongside other new and existing investors. Proceeds supported media-generation research and expansion of Runway Studios, its AI film and animation studio. The recently… - source: generalatlantic.com
• 2023-06-29 - Funding - Runway brings Google, NVIDIA and Salesforce into 2023 financing extension - Google, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures participated alongside existing investors. Runway planned to expand in-house multimodal research and hire across research, engineering and product. The announcement followed the 2023 launches of Gen-1 and Gen-2; Runway… - source: runway.com
• 2022-12-05 - Funding - Runway gains Felicis-led financing for collaborative content creation - Madrona joined existing investors Amplify Partners, Coatue, Compound and Lux Capital. Runway combined collaborative editing, asset-management integrations and multimodal content generation in one creative suite. Its AI-assisted rotoscoping let editors select… - source: madrona.com
• 2021-12-15 - Funding - Runway adds Coatue-led capital for video tools in 2021 - Existing investors Amplify Partners, Lux Capital and Compound participated alongside the new lead investor. Coatue’s David Cahn and Caryn Marooney brought experience in product-led growth and video-market distribution. Runway was developing browser-based… - source: runway.com
• 2020-12-16 - Funding - Runway raises $8.5 million Series A - Lux Capital and Compound Ventures also participated, represented by Zavain Dar and Michael Dempsey. Runway planned to expand the team building its machine-learning media-production tools. The company originated at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and credited… - source: runway.com