On September 9, 2025, Runware, a performance and price-focused AI-as-a-Service provider, announced a $13 million fundraise led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from previous investors a16z Speedrun, Begin Capital, and Zero Prime. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Runware on the transaction.

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 four billion visual assets have been generated on Runware's inference engine and over 100,000 developers have been onboarded in less than a year since launch. The platform hosts more than 400,000 AI models and powers media inference for over 250 million end users through customers like Quora, NightCafe, OpenArt, and FocalML.

The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Runware on the transaction includes Jonathan Chan, Mark Baudler, Catherine Riley Tzipori, Peter Bratton, Utsav Lall, and Joseph Auer.

For more information, please see Runware’s news release.