Private Markets, Angel and Secondary Investing, Sacra

Sacra

Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction.

Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

Private Markets, Angel and Secondary Investing

Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

Private Capital Markets

<ul><li>The 2024 launch of Runway’s Gen-3 model, going beyond text-to-video, inpainting, green screen and rotoscoping to directing camera movement, expanding frames, and generating characters that are consistent from scene to scene, drove a surge of demand from independent filmmakers, with Sacra estimating that Runway hit $84M ARR in 2024, up 236% YoY from $25M at the end of 2023.</li><li>Founded in 2018, Runway’s AI-powered automations help filmmakers and VFX teams cut their video editing costs from $350 to ~$10 per shot.</li><li>In September 2024, after years of training their models on YouTube videos, Runway inked a deal with Lionsgate to train a model on their 20,000 titles—giving Runway access to a “Hollywood-grade” video dataset and giving Lionsgate the legal air cover to accelerate its use of AI in preproduction (storyboarding, drafting scenes) and postproduction (creating backgrounds and special effects)—with the upside of potentially licensing the model out to other studios to use in the future.</li></ul>

The 2024 launch of Runway’s Gen-3 model, going beyond text-to-video, inpainting, green screen and rotoscoping to directing camera movement, expanding frames, and generating characters that are consistent from scene to scene, drove a surge of demand from independent filmmakers, with Sacra estimating that Runway hit $84M ARR in 2024, up 236% YoY from $25M at the end of 2023.Founded in 2018, Runway’s AI-powered automations help filmmakers and VFX teams cut their video editing costs from $350 to ~$10 per shot.In September 2024, after years of training their models on YouTube videos, Runway inked a deal with Lionsgate to train a model on their 20,000 titles—giving Runway access to a “Hollywood-grade” video dataset and giving Lionsgate the legal air cover to accelerate its use of AI in preproduction (storyboarding, drafting scenes) and postproduction (creating backgrounds and special effects)—with the upside of potentially licensing the model out to other studios to use in the future.

Runway

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