Runway opens an office in Tokyo and commits $40 million in the Japanese market.

Runway expands in Japan with a new Tokyo office and a $40 million investment to scale its third-largest global market for enterprise AI video tools.

Runway formalizes its establishment in Japan with the opening of a regional headquarters in Tokyo, an initial investment of $40 million, and the recruitment of a Head of Japan tasked with building out the product, engineering, sales, and customer deployment teams. The country is now the studio's third-largest global market in both enterprise clients and individual subscriptions, and alone accounts for a third of the sales volume generated in Asia. The number of enterprise clients there has grown by 300% over the past twelve months, making it also the fastest-growing self-serve market on the continent.

Among the users already cited by Runway are Yamaha, SoftBank Corp., and NHN, who integrate its tools into their marketing, advertising, and creative pipelines. Daisuke Fujihira, Head of AX Solutions Division at SoftBank, in the statement praises the decision and investment as a signal sent to the Japanese creative industry.

Cristóbal Valenzuela, co-founder and co-CEO, justifies this expansion by the maturity of the local creative landscape, but also by the position of Japan and other major Asian markets in robotics, manufacturing, and gaming—sectors he identifies as central application areas for the world models developed by the company.