Overview
- Dawn Capital led the round and partner Shamillah Bankiya joined the board, with participation from Speedinvest, Comcast Ventures, Insight Partners, a16z Speedrun, Zero Prime Ventures and Begin Capital.
- Runware’s platform offers a single API for image, video and audio generation, aggregating nearly 300 model classes and hundreds of thousands of variants behind one schema.
- The company pairs its Sonic Inference Engine with custom-built hardware and deployable inference PODs that it says cut latency and costs, including claims of 30–40% faster performance and 5–10x savings on many open-source workloads.
- Management says the capital will expand global inference capacity, extend the Sonic engine, add staff and work toward making 2 million-plus Hugging Face models available on the API by the end of 2026.
- Runware reports powering billions of media creations for hundreds of thousands of developers and cites customers such as Wix, Quora, Together.ai and ImagineArt.