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Venture Capital News: Runware Raises $13M Seed Round

2025-09-10
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Runware, a performance & price-focused AI-as-a-Service provider, today announced a $13 million seed round.
The round was led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from previous investors a16z Speedrun, Begin Capital, and Zero Prime. The funding will be used to expand Runware's capabilities from image and video generation to all-media workflows, including audio, LLM, and 3D. To date, more than 4B visual assets have been generated on Runware's inference engine and over 100K developers have been onboarded in less than a year since launch. The platform hosts +400K AI models and powers media inference for more than 250M end users through customers like Quora, NightCafe, OpenArt, FocalML.

Runware delivers AI-as-a-Service at 90% lower cost and with higher speed than competitors. Built for scale, the service has already powered 4 billion+ creations for +100K developers and +250M end-users worldwide.
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