Runway

Founders

• CV

  Cristóbal Valenzuela

  Co-founder and CEO (2018–)

  Chilean entrepreneur (b. 1990). NYU Tisch School of the Arts ITP graduate, where he met Anastasis Germanidis and Alejandro Matamala in 2018. Founded Runway as a platform for deploying ML models in multimedia applications. Listed on the TIME100 AI 2023 most-influential AI people. Vocal critic of AI 'doomerism' — declares: 'Not everyone is trying to build God'.

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  Anastasis Germanidis

  Co-founder and CTO (2018–)

  Greek software engineer. NYU Tisch School of the Arts ITP graduate. At Runway, responsible for the architecture of all the company's generative models — from the original Stable Diffusion (co-developed in 2022 with CompVis Group / LMU Munich and Stability AI) to the Gen family (Gen-1, Gen-2, Gen-3, Gen-4, Gen-4.5) and GWM-1.

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  Alejandro Matamala

  Co-founder and CDO — Chief Design Officer (2018–)

  Chilean designer and artist. NYU Tisch School of the Arts ITP graduate. At Runway, responsible for product design, brand, and user experience — a key figure in building Runway's identity as a tool for filmmakers and creators.