Anastasis Germanidis

Anastasis Germanidis is co-founder and CTO of Runway, the generative video AI company he started in November 2018 with Cristóbal Valenzuela and Alejandro Matamala. As of February 2026 he is stepping into a co-CEO role alongside Valenzuela. He earned a BA in computer science from Wesleyan and a master's from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and previously worked as a machine learning researcher at IBM Research and as a backend engineer at Zocdoc and Quantcast.