Runway crosses $200M ARR, doubles from April, acquires Kinetix for robotics push
tlakomy · x · 2026-09-08
Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela announced the company crossed $200M ARR last week, doubling from $100M in April. Runway serves 60M+ creators and 95% of the Fortune 100, with its largest customers increasingly licensing its frontier models directly. The Paris-based research lab Kinetix is joining Runway to drive its robotics expansion toward the 'universal world simulator.'
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