For founders, built by founders
Runway

AI-native corporate bank account for startups, with a built-in CFO handling cards, expenses, payroll, and reports from day one to exit day.

The story

A founder's finance story,
told the way it actually happened.

01
The idea

You had an idea on a random Tuesday.

By the weekend, you'd pitched it to three friends. By the end of the month, you'd almost convinced one of them to join. Then you tried to open a bank account.

You brought the paperwork. You brought it again. You brought a shareholder in person. Someone asked for a minimum balance you didn't have. Someone didn't understand what a startup was, and didn't care about your vision - you were just another line on a bank teller's Monday.

Your first customer paid into your personal account. You told yourself it was temporary.

02
The mess

It was never temporary.

You raised a pre-seed. Cash sat in one place, invoices in another, receipts piled up in a third. You hired your cousin to keep the books - the one your mum has been calling a math connoisseur at every family gathering since you were kids. Turned out he wasn't.

You tried a fractional CFO who answered emails on Tuesdays. You tried the AI tools, the ones that sound certain about a spreadsheet you copy-pasted in last week. None of them lived where your money actually was.

A board member asked what your runway was. You said "around nine months." You went home and opened the spreadsheet. You weren't sure then either.

03
The turn

It shouldn't have been like that.

It shouldn't take a weekend to file your receipts. You shouldn't have to go through being ghosted by a Fiverr freelancer. It shouldn't take a spreadsheet, a bank app, an AI tool, and your cousin "CFO" to figure it all out - your money is in one place, your answers are in another.

Every founder has a version of this story. Most are still living in it.

The product

We've been through it too.
So we built Runway.

A corporate account for startups, with everything else built in.

Active accountsLive
GBP£169,300.50
EUR€40,000.00
USD$25,540.00
Recent
Stripe+£15,000·Stripe payout2m
Notion+€8,200·Notion invoice14m
Linear+$3,400·Linear invoice1h
01 - Banking

Open the company in days, not months.

A multi-currency corporate bank account - fully regulated, in your company's name. Hold GBP, EUR and USD natively, with real IBANs from day one.

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02 - Cards

Issue cards your team can actually use.

Set spending limits, lock vendors, pause anyone - anytime, in one click. Physical and virtual cards for the whole team, with controls that finance can trust.

October payrollRun payroll
🇫🇷Sophie Laurent€4,200
🇬🇧Tom Whitfield£5,400
🇪🇸Yasmin Karimi€3,800
🇩🇪Noah Rivera€4,600
🇮🇹Layla Hassan€3,500
Total · 0 countries£0
03 - Payroll

Pay anyone, anywhere, with one click.

Employees, contractors, founders. In any country, any currency. Tax handled, contracts filed, statements delivered.

Updated · just now
Months of runway
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Burn
£48k/mo
Cash
£682k
Automated by Will
DeliverooDeliveroo£64· Team meals · Layla Hassan
StripeStripe payout£15,000· Revenue
awsAWS£2,400· Infrastructure
04 - Bookkeeping

Books that close themselves.

Will posts entries, reconciles every transaction and keeps your runway live - so month-end is just another day.

October 2026 - Investor update
Revenue£142kBurn£48kRunway14.3moARR growth+18%

Drafted by Will
Bank reconciliation - October
Investor update - October 2026
Board pack - Q4 2026
P&L - October 2026
Cap table - current
ESOP report - Q4 2026
05 - Reports

Reports that draft themselves.

Investor updates, board packs, P&L, cap table - drafted from your live numbers and ready to send when you need them.

Will · always on
Will
WillOnline · your AI bookkeeper
Will
Quick question - you withdrew £400 in cash this morning. What was that for?
06 - AI CFO

Will - he's always got the bill.

An AI that lives inside your account. He chases receipts, answers in plain English and keeps your books honest - because he has the numbers.

Runway

One product where your money lives, your people get paid,
and Will - he's always got the bill.

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