{"id":89935,"date":"2026-05-29T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/runway-and-holy-water-two-ai-video-companies-trying-to-upend-entertainment-strictlyvc-athens-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:44:40","slug":"runway-and-holy-water-two-ai-video-companies-trying-to-upend-entertainment-strictlyvc-athens-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/runway-and-holy-water-two-ai-video-companies-trying-to-upend-entertainment-strictlyvc-athens-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Runway and Holy Water: Two AI Video Companies Trying to Upend Entertainment | StrictlyVC Athens 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Runway began within art school, with a sparse network and little investor insight into AI video. HolyWater Tech started in <!--more--> Kyiv with no venture capital, and a mandate to be profitable from day one. <\/p>\n<p>Seven years later, both have succeeded in disrupting, and putting some level of fear in, creative industries worldwide. At this StrictlyVC Athens 2026 discussion, host and TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos brought both on stage to get the inside story of how these two breakout companies actually broke out.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<\/p>\n<p>Anastasis Germanidis: Co-Founder &amp; Co-CEO, Runway<br \/>\nAnatolii Kasianov: Co-Founder &amp; Co-CEO, Holy Water Tech<\/p>\n<p>Recorded live at StrictlyVC Athens 2026, presented in partnership with Endeavor Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Runway began within art school, with a sparse network and little investor insight into AI video. HolyWater Tech started in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}