When diffusion models exploded, Flaviu and Ioana couldn’t believe how slow and expensive it was to generate images and video at scale. So, in 2023, they launched a side project with a simple but audacious ambition: to make generating an image as fast as finding one, and affordable for mass use.

The project spread by word of mouth as builders discovered a product that was not just faster, but dramatically cheaper than anything else, and therefore scalable to millions of workloads. Demand for an API arrived almost overnight, and the project became Runware: a vertically integrated media-inference platform that makes image, video and audio generation a scalable sub-second process via a single API.

Runware’s entire setup and success to date is a reflection of its founders. Flaviu and Ioana are relentless systems thinkers who know where performance actually comes from, and they move fast without breaking the things that matter. They have built the rare platform that delights developers, satisfies enterprise checklists, and bends the cost curve in the customer’s favour.

This is a huge, urgent market, and Runware has the right product at the right layer, built by the right team.