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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Runway.\n\nCristóbal Valenzuela co-founded Runway in 2018 with Alejandro Matamala and Anastasis Germanidis after they met at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts ITP. Wikipedia lists him as CEO of the generative video company.\n\n## What Cristóbal builds\n\n- [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.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Alejandro Matamala](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alejandro-matamala/), Co-founder, Runway\n- [Anastasis Germanidis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/anastasis-germanidis/), Co-founder and co-CEO, Runway\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Amplify Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amplify-partners/)\n- [Lux Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lux-capital/)\n- [Compound](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/compound/)\n- [Coatue](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/coatue/)\n- [Felicis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/felicis/)\n- [Madrona](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/madrona/)\n- [Google](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/google/)\n- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)\n- [Salesforce](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/salesforce/)\n- [General Atlantic](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/general-atlantic/)\n- [Fidelity Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/fidelity-investments/)\n- [Baillie Gifford](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/baillie-gifford/)\n- [SoftBank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/softbank/)\n- [Adobe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/adobe/)\n- [AllianceBernstein](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/alliancebernstein/)\n- [AMD](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amd/)\n- [Mirae Asset](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mirae-asset/)\n- [Emphatic Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/emphatic-capital/)\n- [Premji Invest](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/premji-invest/)\n- [Guillermo Rauch](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/guillermo-rauch/)\n- [Amjad Masad](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amjad-masad/)\n- [Howie Liu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/howie-liu/)\n- [Soumith Chintala](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/soumith-chintala/)\n- [Lukas Biewald](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lukas-biewald/)\n- [Jay Simons](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jay-simons/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Cristóbal Valenzuela?\n\nCristóbal Valenzuela co-founded Runway in 2018 with Alejandro Matamala and Anastasis Germanidis after they met at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts ITP. Wikipedia lists him as CEO of the generative video company.\n\n### What does Runway make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Runway API from Runway. 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).\n\n### Who has invested in Runway?\n\nThe 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.\n\n### How are Cristóbal's tools graded?\n\nRunway API is graded C, 60.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://runway.com/\n- https://runway.com/about\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runway_(company)\n\nThese 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. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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