# Runway — Introducing Runway Builders

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2026-03-31T12:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://runway.com/news/introducing-runway-builders
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7890-introducing-runway-builders
- Subject: Gen / Aleph
- Models affected: Runway Characters, GWM-1

Runway launched Runway Builders, a program providing Seed to Series C startups with free API credits and early access to Runway Characters, a real-time video agent API powered by GWM-1.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://runway.com/news/introducing-runway-builders:

> We're giving Seed to Series C startups complementary API credits and early access to build with Runway Characters.

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