# Alejandro Matamala (slim)

> Alejandro Matamala is co-founder of Runway. Runway API on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, Runway.

Alejandro Matamala co-founded Runway in 2018 with Cristóbal Valenzuela and Anastasis Germanidis after they met at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts ITP.

## What Alejandro builds

- [Runway API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runway.md), graded C, 60.8/100, in Video generation. Runway Dev, the HTTP API for Runway's own video models (Gen-4.5, Gen-4 Turbo, Aleph 2.0, Act-Two) plus resold third-party models (Veo 3.1, Seedance, WAN 3.0, Hailuo, Grok Imagine). Co-founder, Runway, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Anastasis Germanidis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/anastasis-germanidis/), Co-founder and co-CEO, Runway
- [Cristóbal Valenzuela](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/cristobal-valenzuela/), Co-founder, Runway

## Backed by

- [Amplify Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amplify-partners/)
- [Lux Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lux-capital/)
- [Compound](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/compound/)
- [Coatue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coatue/)
- [Felicis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/felicis/)
- [Madrona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/madrona/)
- [Google](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/google/)
- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)
- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)
- [General Atlantic](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-atlantic/)
- [Fidelity Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/fidelity-investments/)
- [Baillie Gifford](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/baillie-gifford/)
- [SoftBank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/softbank/)
- [Adobe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/adobe/)
- [AllianceBernstein](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alliancebernstein/)
- [AMD](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amd/)
- [Mirae Asset](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mirae-asset/)
- [Emphatic Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/emphatic-capital/)
- [Premji Invest](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/premji-invest/)
- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)
- [Amjad Masad](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amjad-masad/)
- [Howie Liu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/howie-liu/)
- [Soumith Chintala](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/soumith-chintala/)
- [Lukas Biewald](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lukas-biewald/)
- [Jay Simons](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jay-simons/)

## Questions

### Who is Alejandro Matamala?

Alejandro Matamala co-founded Runway in 2018 with Cristóbal Valenzuela and Anastasis Germanidis after they met at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts ITP.

### What does Runway make?

Anchor Terminal lists Runway API from Runway.

### Who has invested in Runway?

The sources our research read name Amplify Partners, Lux Capital, Compound, Coatue, Felicis, Madrona, Google, NVIDIA, Salesforce, General Atlantic, Fidelity Investments, Baillie Gifford, SoftBank, Adobe, AllianceBernstein, AMD, Mirae Asset, Emphatic Capital, Premji Invest, Guillermo Rauch, Amjad Masad, Howie Liu, Soumith Chintala, Lukas Biewald and Jay Simons.

### How are Alejandro's tools graded?

Runway API is graded C, 60.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://runway.com/
- https://runway.com/about
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runway_(company)

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.