Our story

Building the conversational future of SaaS

We believe the next generation of software is operated through conversation, not clicks. Runa is the infrastructure that makes that possible for every SaaS product.

Mission

Why we built Runa

In 2024, we watched countless SaaS products struggle to adopt AI. They had great LLMs available, but no infrastructure to connect them to their actual product data and actions.

Every team was reinventing the same plumbing: embedding knowledge, wiring APIs, handling auth, building conversation UIs. Months of engineering time on infrastructure that had nothing to do with their core product.

Runa is the platform we wished existed. Ship your first AI agent in hours, not months.

“We wanted every SaaS product — not just the ones with a 10-person ML team — to be able to give their users a genuinely intelligent assistant.”

AK

Alex Kim, CEO

500+

Companies using Runa

2M+

Conversations powered

99.9%

Uptime SLA

4.9/5

Average rating

Team

Meet the team

AK

Alex Kim

Co-founder & CEO

Previously VP of Product at Intercom.

SR

Sarah Reyes

Co-founder & CTO

Ex-ML engineer at OpenAI and Stripe.

MJ

Marcus Johnson

Head of Engineering

Built distributed systems at Cloudflare.

LP

Lily Park

Head of Design

Former lead designer at Linear.

DT

Daniel Torres

Head of Sales

Scaled revenue to $10M ARR at Retool.

NC

Nina Chen

Head of Customer Success

Obsessed with helping customers win.

Backed by

Backed by the best

We are proud to be backed by Y Combinator and leading founders in the developer tools space.

YC

Y Combinator

W25 Batch

Values

What we believe

User obsession

Every decision starts with the user. If it doesn't make their experience better, we don't ship it.

Radical transparency

We share what we know, what we are building, and what went wrong — internally and with customers.

Ship fast

We bias toward action. Small bets, fast iterations, and learning in production beats planning in a document.

Long-term thinking

We are building infrastructure. Every architectural choice is made for the next decade, not the next sprint.

Join us on the journey

Build the AI infrastructure layer for your product — in hours, not months.