Diligence memo · auto-generated · as of July 2, 2026
Rent the Runway, Inc.
Rent the Runway, Inc. looks fair against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Businessfiled
Rent the Runway, Inc. operates in Retailing, based in NEW YORK.
No verified homepage on file yet — operating evidence is limited to the public record.
Capital & rounds (filed)filed
Rent the Runway, Inc. has raised $174M in disclosed capital across 5 recorded rounds, aggregated from public filings. Its latest round is modeled as Series C (a $40M–$100M round).
Largest single filing: $60M on 2014-12-18.
Most recent recorded round closed around 2016-12-22.
Valuation (modeled)modeled
Provath models Rent the Runway, Inc. at approximately $349M (range $209M–$920M). This is an algorithmic estimate from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
Read: Fair. Modeled value is 1.20× the median modeled value of Series C Retailing companies in 2016–2018 (8 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era. Within the normal band (120% of peer median) for its niche.
Financing rhythm & timingmixed
Historic cadence: a new round about every 15 months.
Last raise 9.5 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 13 months.
Silent for over 3× the sector's normal cadence.
The last round was 1.0× smaller than the prior — a bridge or down round.
Comparablesmixed
Capital scale ranks ahead of 98% of Retailing peers (2347 compared).
Modeled value ranks above 97% of those peers.
Closest niche peers: BrightHouse Topco Ltd, Independent Pet Partners Holdings, LLC, Blue Mistral, LLC, GYMBOREE HOLDING Corp, Ancient Brands Holdings, LLC.
Peoplefiled
24 named people on file across officers, directors and signatories.
Risks & flagsmixed
Financing has been silent well beyond sector cadence — possibly defunct, acquired, or paused.
No clearly named CEO/founder/principal in the surfaced records — key-person evidence is thin.