We raised $21M to help small businesses build, run, and grow - end to end

by Umesh Kumar, Founder & CEO

Three weeks after we turned on monetization, Runable crossed $2M in ARR, and 1.5 million businesses already run on us. We're just a team of 15 now.

Today, Runable announces $21 million in funding, co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, along with continued participation from our first believers, Together Fund and Array VC.

We have not made yet another website/app builder. Hundreds of those exist. We're building the operating team for small businesses . A single platform to build, run, and grow.

Why we are doing it

Nobody starts a business because they want a landing page. They start it because they want customers, revenue, and a company that keeps running even when they are away.

AI has figured out how to automate software and build websites, but not everything that comes after - from running ads to managing operations is still at the mercy of employee availability or agencies that don't care if your business takes a hit, and dozens of tools that don’t talk to each other or wait for you to press the buttons.

Today, Runable changes ALL OF IT.

One platform that does EVERYTHING . Same context, same memory, same business.

"AI made starting a business nearly free. Running one is still the expensive part, and that is the gap Runable closes, with an agent that not only helps in building your website but actually helps in getting your customers and retaining them, within a budget the owner sets. It gives a two-person business the leverage of a much larger team. We are proud to co-lead the round and back Umesh and Saksham."

• Sai Araveti, Investment Advisor to Susquehanna VC

BUILD - is what you are familiar with

You describe what needs to happen, and Runable does the work end to end: landing pages, internal apps, mobile apps, pitch decks, market analysis, prospect lists, recurring workflows, posters, marketing videos, podcasts, dubbing.

It runs on real infrastructure - database, auth, payments, storage, file uploads, deploys. So what comes out is a product you can charge money for, not a prototype you'll rebuild later.

GROW - is what you’ll be blown away by

This is the part we’re most excited about and the feature this fundraising round is really about.

Grow does for your business what you’d usually need an entire team for.

Paid Ads

• Grow plans, launches, and manages ad campaigns across ChatGPT Ads, Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and TikTok all within runable.com. No prior knowledge/skill is needed on your end.
• No ad account needed. If you can type it, Grow can do it. It handles budget, creatives, and everything in between end-to-end.

Brand Management

• Grow builds your brand across Instagram, LinkedIn, X, TikTok and other platforms.
• It’ll create content, schedule it, and post based on what your audience wants to see.

Lead Generation - Cold and Organic

• Cold outreach - email, DMs, and calling with a real voice agent on a real phone number, running conversations to grow your business while you focus on what’s important to you.
• Organic growth - SEO audits, AI visibility and AEO (Chat AIs recommending your business, not just Google search) + support email and support calls handled for you.

Social listening

• Grow monitors what people are saying about you and your competitors, and shares a detailed report with you.

Grow has its own email address, its own phone number, its own handles, and its own card with a balance and spending limits set by you. It operates like an employee would, except it never stops running your business.

"Durable value in AI will be created by helping users actually run their business, rather than just creating software. 95% of that revolves around customers, revenues, and operations, which is exactly what Runable powers. We backed Umesh and Saksham at the idea stage and have doubled down within 12 months because they've proven this, with thousands of users who run their business on Runable.”

- Shubham Gupta, Co-Founder and General Partner, Together Fund

We are excited because

Our users see real impact:

"We've managed to negotiate something like £10 million off. It was a £120 million contract." Lionel Hives, construction consultant (United Kingdom)- solo, non-technical

"I'm 45. I never looked at myself as a programmer. I hate programming." He built a dashboard as a favour for a friend's prison ministry: "This dashboard idea is… going to grow to probably a 15 or $20,000, if not more, project."

Tim Adams, audiovisual systems installer for churches (United States)- solo operator

"Tracking, monitoring, invoice templates, quote calculators… live energy pricing, all that type of stuff. I've tried most of them… and so far this has been the best one."

Delano S., founder, commercial cleaning company (United Kingdom)- small team

"In the last 30 days, I've used like 300,000 credits with you guys," says Odadson. His partner Adrian: "I was using it for freaking flyers, man. And I didn't know I could build apps and do all this stuff."

Odadson Joseph and Adrian, co-founders, Legal Line Services (United States)- four businesses between them What’s next This fundraise has given us a significant amount of capital, here’s what we are doing with it:

1. Make Grow the best growth team a small business can hire. More channels, deeper measurement, and an agent that closes the loop on its own, it should notice a campaign is underperforming, understand why, and fix it before you ask.
2. Show a million business owners what is actually possible. So, we built Runable Academy - a free, structured course that takes you from your first website to running your business on autopilot.
3. Hire generational talent, and stay small longer than we should. We're hiring across engineering, ML, product, growth, and support. We'd rather add fifteen exceptional people than a hundred good ones, and we intend to prove that a small team with the right leverage beats a large one.

*"Most AI tools stop at output. Businesses need outcomes: customers, revenue, cash in the bank. That’s what Runable’s general-purpose autonomous AI agent does: not just automate software creation but build, run, and grow a business. We are thrilled to back Umesh and Saksham in their journey of helping millions of users across the globe run their businesses."

• Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Partner, Nexus Venture Partners*

Lastly, to our first 1.5 million users

You built the case for this round. Every business you launched on Runable, every campaign you ran, every bug report at 2 a.m. - that was the deck.

There are hundreds of millions of small businesses in the world, and almost all of them are outgunned by companies with bigger teams and bigger budgets. Not better ideas. We think that's a tooling problem. We think it's solvable.

If you have a business: come build it, run it, and let Runable grow it - runable.com.

If you're not sure where to start, start at Runable Academy. It's free.

And if you want to work on this with us, we're hiring.

Umesh Kumar

Co-Founder & CEO, Runable*