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

Knowledge graph

Market map Circular lifecycle for manufactured goods (Global)

Talent graph

Rent the Runway's talent

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Employees mapped 878 incl. 9 AI specialists

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 8 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

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

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

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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