Future Unicorn #221: Runway

The Quild Future Unicorn highlights one future of work early-stage startup with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

Runway develops creative tools designed to bring the benefits of artificial intelligence to creative projects. The company's tools use original image and video creation techniques inventing interfaces for synthetic manipulation and editing using text to edit video and create a video.

Founders: Alejandro, Cristobal (CEO), Anastasis (CTO)

1. Repeat founder

• Alejandro founded Deenty, an online booking platform for dentists, which raised from Magma Partners and 500 Startups

2. Venture-backed experience

• Anastasis was an engineer at Chartbeat (1+ years) and Zocdoc (<1 year)

3. Top university alumni

• Alejandro graduated from New York University (MS)

• Cristobal graduated from New York University (MS)

• Anastasis graduated from New York University (MS)

4. Top investors

• Coatue led series B

• Amplify Partners led series A