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The RealReal

eCommerce & Marketplaces · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2011 · IPO 2019 Unicorn

The world’s premier online luxury resale store

Valuation

$1.74B

Market cap · May/2026

Revenue

$693M

Latest reported FY

EBITDA

$63M

Latest reported FY

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

Investors

20 investors on The RealReal's cap table

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

Seed 5 investors entered at this stage

Quixotic Ventures

Expansion Venture Capital

500 Global

Giordano Contestabile

Payam Zamani

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage

Canaan

Headline

Series B+ 13 investors entered at this stage

DBL Partners

InterWest Partners

Great Hill Partners

Novel TMT Ventures

GreyLion Capital

Greenspring Associates

Broadway Angels

NextEquity Partners

The Perkins Fund

Industry Ventures

Mark Kingdon

Greycroft Partners

Sandbridge Capital

The RealReal mafia

Startups founded by The RealReal alumni

Former The RealReal employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

VITUREEst. 2021

EWEmily WUnited States

Signal score94

The Clear CutEst. 2017

Olivia LandauUnited States

Kenan PulakUnited States

Signal score73

MassdriverEst. 2021

Cory O'DanielUnited States

Signal score67

KAYA ClimbEst. 2018

Austin LeeUnited States

Signal score66

AharaEst. 2022

JWJulie WainwrightUnited States

Ganesh NunnagoppulaUnited States

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Global footprint

Where The RealReal has talent and traffic

AI talent share

0.3% of workforce is AI talent
(8 of 2,567 staff)

Core AI60.23%

Other AI20.08%

Non-AI workforce2,55999.69%

Workforce by country

18 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States97.3%

🇧🇷 Brazil1%

🇨🇦 Canada0.5%

🇮🇩 Indonesia0.3%

🇺🇾 Uruguay0.2%

Top 5 of 18 shown

Web traffic by country

21M monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States91.3%

🇨🇦 Canada1.4%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom1.1%

🇦🇺 Australia0.7%

🇲🇽 Mexico0.3%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$645k patent portfolio · 8 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$645k

0.04% of market cap · 76.5× smaller than top peer Rent the Runway ($49M)

8 active patent families

Where The RealReal innovates Computer visionMechanical engineeringDigitizationData miningImage analysis

Where The RealReal concentrates vs peers

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

Compare against

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 The RealReal

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about The RealReal 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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