Cristóbal Valenzuela
Co-founder and CEO of Runway
The Chilean-born co-founder and CEO of Runway, which builds generative AI tools for video and creative work.
Biography
Cristóbal Valenzuela is a Chilean-born technologist, software developer and CEO of Runway. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and business management and a master's degree in arts in design from Adolfo Ibáñez University in Chile, and in 2018 completed a media arts degree at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts ITP program, where he worked with Daniel Shiffman. He contributes to open-source projects including ml5.js, an open-source machine learning library.
In 2018 he co-founded Runway in New York City with ITP colleagues Anastasis Germanidis and Alejandro Matamala, to create new tools for human imagination using generative AI. TIME named him to its 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in AI.
Notable contributions
Co-founded Runway
Co-founded Runway in New York in 2018 with Anastasis Germanidis and Alejandro Matamala to build generative AI tools for creative work.
Named to the TIME100 AI list
Named one of TIME's 100 most influential people in AI in September 2023.
Contributed to ml5.js
Contributes to open-source machine learning software including ml5.js.