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Rent the Runway
E-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories
At a glance
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2021
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Rent the Runway.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed1 investor entered at this stage
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later21 investors entered at this stage
- CNCondé Nast
- SCSuRo Capital
- APAdvance Venture Partners
American Express Ventures
Advance- NVNovel TMT Ventures
- SCSaints Capital
Fidelity Investments
Franklin Templeton Investments- 9V93 Ventures
- American Express
TCV- BCBlue Pool Capital
- AMAres Management
- FVFlight Ventures
ACME Capital
Kleiner Perkins
T. Rowe Price
TriplePoint Capital
Shervin Pishevar- HLHamilton Lane
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Rent the Runway employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
CACardlessEst. 2019
WEWellTheoryEst. 2020
Ellen RudolphUnited States
SPSpotDraftEst. 2017
Rohith SalimUnited States
Dorothy CreavenIreland
COCoralEst. 2023
Nizar DhamaniUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
45 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Rent the Runway on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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