Boutique Public Affairs
With a Global Reach

More than ever, public affairs strategy is critical to a company’s success. That’s where we come in.

What We Do

We create strategies to solve problems today and avoid them tomorrow.

  • Policy and Regulatory Development

    Where a company’s success hinges on the legal and political environment around it, we create scalable strategies to remove obstacles and build consensus. Our emphasis is on forging an approach broad enough to address company-wide priorities, yet sufficiently flexible to capture market-specific nuance and needs.

  • Strategy Execution and Management

    Effective policy and regulatory strategy requires expert execution. We have over 25 years of combined experience dealing with public officials, third-party stakeholders, and overseeing market-specific resources to tell compelling stories, secure buy-in, and drive meaningful change for clients.

  • Organizational Infrastructure

    Without the right internal structure, effectively managing regulatory and policy engagement becomes exponentially harder as companies expand. We help clients build the tools and team structure necessary to enable seamless oversight and management of engagement in each market.

  • Global Expansion

    We leverage our experience enabling cross-border growth to advise companies on new market entry, using lessons learned to avoid pitfalls and accelerate results. We conduct regional and individual market diligence, and through our global network connect clients with market-specific experts to identify opportunities, build relationships, and drive growth.

We are a team of trusted advisors with deep experience working alongside hyper-growth companies at the intersection of business and government. With us, clients solve regulatory and policy challenges across cities and around the world.

Meet the Team

Why Runway

We’re fast

We’ve built rocket ships and worked at hyperscale. Whatever speed you move at, we do too.

We’re global

We leverage a deep network of market-specific experts to get the job done anywhere in the world.

We’ve done it

We’ve legalized industries, fixed crises, and won bet-the-company battles. It’s not our first rodeo.

We’re different

We know where external firms fall short, so we built Runway to work like part of your team.

We’ve worked with some of the most innovative companies worldwide:

  • Runway has been a critical resource to us as we’ve expanded outside of our home market of NYC. In particular, the Runway team led a successful grassroots and lobbying campaign to tailor regulation to Relay’s unique operating model.

    Alex Blum, CEO - Relay Delivery

  • The response to COVID created a flurry of state legislative activity relevant to telehealth providers across all 50 states. Runway provided us a bird’s eye view of these developments and were instrumental in the development of our strategy and positioning in response to these changes. Leveraging their in-house experience, they also advised us on building out our public policy function and how to best support our legal and business colleagues.

    Stephanie Swartz, Senior Director of Policy & Public Affairs - The Pill Club

  • Our work with Runway has been integral to Veho’s growth. Runway’s development and oversight of our regulatory strategy has let us move quicker and build faster while avoiding pitfalls along the way. They work like they’re part of the team; I would recommend them to any company needing to navigate government obstacles.

    Billy Guernier, COO - Veho

Let’s get to work.