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Rent the Runway

eCommerce & Marketplaces · New York City, United States · Founded 2009 · IPO 2021

E-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories

Valuation $282M
Revenue $330M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Featured in
Market map Circular lifecycle for manufactured goods (Global)

Investors

23 investors on Rent the Runway's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
Bain Capital Ventures
Series A 1 investor entered at this stage
Highland Capital Partners
Series B+ 21 investors entered at this stage
Condé Nast
SuRo Capital
Advance Venture Partners
American Express Ventures
Advance
Novel TMT Ventures
Saints Capital
Fidelity Investments
Franklin Templeton Investments
93 Ventures
American Express
TCV
Blue Pool Capital
Ares Management
Flight Ventures
ACME Capital
Kleiner Perkins
T. Rowe Price
TriplePoint Capital
Shervin Pishevar
Hamilton Lane

Rent the Runway mafia

Startups founded by Rent the Runway alumni

Former Rent the Runway employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

CardlessEst. 2019
MSMichael SpelfogelUnited States
Signal score93
WellTheoryEst. 2020
Ellen RudolphUnited States
Signal score90
SpotDraftEst. 2017
Rohith SalimUnited States
Signal score86
JenticEst. 2024
Dorothy CreavenIreland
Signal score85
CoralEst. 2023
Nizar DhamaniUnited States
Signal score85
RebagEst. 2014
Charles-Albert GorraUnited States
Signal score84
TrueNorthEst. 2019
Jin StedgeUnited States
Signal score84
Cure HydrationEst. 2018
LPLauren PicassoUnited States
Signal score83
SawyerEst. 2015
AFAndrew FernandezUnited States
Signal score81
OllieEst. 2015
GSGabby SlomeUnited States
Signal score79
CubeEst. 2018
Christina Calvaneso RossUnited States
Signal score79
Minibar DeliveryEst. 2013
Lara CrystalUnited States
Signal score79

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Global footprint

Where Rent the Runway has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
13 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States85.5%
🇮🇪 Ireland12%
🇨🇦 Canada0.4%
🇨🇭 Switzerland0.2%
🇵🇹 Portugal0.2%
Top 5 of 13 shown
Web traffic by country
4.3M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States96%
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic1.6%
🇨🇦 Canada0.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.2%
🇲🇽 Mexico0.1%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Rent the Runway's talent

Dealroom maps Rent the Runway's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

8 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
9 AI specialistsincl. 2 core researchers
878 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$57M patent portfolio · 45 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$57M
20.2% of market cap · 7.8× larger than top peer Depop ($7M)
45 active patent families
Where Rent the Runway innovates Classical mechanicsContainer topsControl theoryFood scienceMechanical engineering

Where Rent the Runway concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Rent the Runway and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Rent the Runway

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Rent the Runway on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

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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