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Rent the Runway

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

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

Valuation

$305M

Market cap · May/2026

Revenue

$306M

Latest reported FY

Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

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

Ares Management

Fidelity Investments

ACME Capital

Condé Nast

T. Rowe Price

Flight Ventures

93 Ventures

TCV

SuRo Capital

Blue Pool Capital

American Express

Kleiner Perkins

TriplePoint Capital

Advance Venture Partners

Franklin Templeton Investments

Saints Capital

American Express Ventures

Advance

Novel TMT Ventures

Hamilton Lane

Shervin Pishevar

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.

WellTheoryEst. 2020

Ellen RudolphUnited States

Signal score91

SpotDraftEst. 2017

Rohith SalimUnited States

Signal score88

JenticEst. 2024

Dorothy CreavenIreland

Signal score85

CoralEst. 2023

Nizar DhamaniUnited States

Signal score84

Cure HydrationEst. 2018

LPLauren PicassoUnited States

Signal score84

Minibar DeliveryEst. 2013

Lara CrystalUnited States

Signal score81

CubeEst. 2018

Christina Calvaneso RossUnited States

Signal score81

CandorEst. 2021

KBKelsey BishopUnited States

Signal score81

Block renovationEst. 2017

Koda WangUnited States

Signal score80

OllieEst. 2015

GSGabby SlomeUnited States

Signal score80

RebagEst. 2014

Charles-Albert GorraUnited States

Signal score80

TrueNorthEst. 2019

Jin StedgeUnited States

Signal score79

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Global footprint

Where Rent the Runway has talent and traffic

AI talent share

1.0% of workforce is AI talent
(9 of 866 staff)

Core AI20.23%

Other AI70.81%

Non-AI workforce85798.96%

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

4.2M monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States95.9%

🇨🇦 Canada0.4%

🇦🇺 Australia0.4%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.3%

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates0.2%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$49M patent portfolio · 46 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$49M

16.2% of market cap · 6.9× the top peer Depop ($7M)

46 active patent families

Where Rent the Runway innovates Mechanical engineeringPhysicsStructural engineeringClassical mechanicsMechanics

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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