Runable has raised $21 million to expand an AI-powered platform designed to help businesses do more than create digital content. The startup wants its AI agent to find customers, run advertising campaigns, manage social media, handle SEO, and improve how businesses appear in AI chatbots.
The funding arrives as Runable tries to move AI agents from making websites and apps to producing measurable business results. The company was founded in 2025 and has about 1.7 million registered users, who consumed more than 1 trillion tokens during the last 90 days.
“In the end, a business doesn’t require Codex or Claude Code or anything. They require real outcomes,” Umesh Kumar, Runable’s co-founder and CEO, said.
Runable wants one request to replace several services
Runable’s platform can build websites, apps, presentations, and other content from natural language prompts. Its next step is to let the same agent work across the business tasks that come after creation, including advertising, social media, SEO, and visibility inside AI chatbots.
The goal is simple: a small business owner could ask Runable to bring in a certain number of customers without setting up several separate services. The platform still requires external ad accounts to run ad campaigns, but Runable is positioning the agent as a single place to manage more of that work.
Kumar compared the idea with the cost of hiring an agency to manage advertising. “If I am paying an agency $10,000 to run my Google Ads, can someone come in and do it for me for a lower price? That’s where Runable comes in.”
This focus on outcomes separates Runable’s pitch from tools built mainly for writing code or generating content. A website, app, or presentation may be the starting point, but the company wants its agent to help connect those outputs to customer growth.
Funding values the startup at $65 million
Runable’s Series A was co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners. Existing investors Together Fund and Array VC also participated. The round used all-equity, primary funding and valued Runable at $65 million after the investment.
Runable has users in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Brazil. Japan is expected to become one of the company’s top markets soon, giving the startup an international user base less than two years after its founding.
The company has not disclosed its current revenue or the number of paying customers. Its usage figures offer one view of demand: more than 1 trillion tokens were consumed over the last 90 days, and paying customers accounted for about 60% to 70% of that usage.
Those numbers also expose a difficult business problem. Runable currently has negative gross margins, meaning the cost of serving its users is higher than the revenue tied to that usage. Kumar said the company is working with a mix of models, including models it is developing itself, to reduce inference costs.
“We are seeing this path where you can provide the same quality of inference at almost 10x less cost,” Kumar said.
AI search is becoming another battleground
Runable’s fundraising comes alongside activity from Keenable, another startup working on infrastructure for web search in AI applications. The two companies are pursuing different parts of a market built around AI systems that can act, search, and produce results for users.
Andrey Styskin described the change as more than a new way to display search results. “This actually creates a new flywheel that is different from what Google learned from human behavior,” he said.
The economics of building AI search remain a major challenge. When asked about the cost, Styskin said, “Don’t ask — it is painfully expensive.” That pressure helps explain why lower-cost inference and purpose-built web search infrastructure matter to companies building AI applications.
Styskin also framed the shift in terms of how people and AI agents find information: “Whether it’s for humans or for agents, the era of the ‘ten blue links’ may be coming to a close.”
For Runable, the immediate test is whether its growing usage can become a sustainable business. The company has a large registered user base, strong token consumption, and paying customers responsible for most usage, but it still needs to reduce the cost of delivering its AI services.
Its $21 million round gives Runable more capital to pursue that goal while expanding beyond content generation. The company is betting that businesses will pay for an agent that does not stop at building something, but also helps bring customers through the door.
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