Rent the Runway

Roughly five years after the launch of its first fund in 2013, Female Founders Fund (F3) has closed on $27 million for its latest seed fund — backed by some of the startup world’s top w

Rent the Runway has snagged a $20 million investment from Alibaba CEO Jack Ma and Joe Tsai via Blue Pool Capital, Recode first reported. Blue Pool Capital is a multibillion-dollar fund that invests in

What a challenging, exhilarating year it has been for women everywhere, starting from the women’s March on Washington to former Uber engineer Susan Fowler’s eye-opening and now famous blog post to

Rent the Runway customers can now be one step closer to actually not having a closet. The company just announced they are launching same-day delivery in NYC, with plans to expand to other markets soon

Fashion e-commerce powerhouse Rent the Runway has confirmed that it raised $60 million in a funding round led by Fidelity Investments. Technology Crossover Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Highland Ca

Amazon has been focusing attention on areas like media streaming, its faster delivery and pickup services, hardware and enterprise via AWS. But it’s also making an effort to reboot one of th

The American dream is no longer for sale -- but it is for rent. We are slowly going through a subtle shift in how the economy is owned and operated, with massive implications. On an average day, you m

Maureen Sullivan, president of AOL.com and the company's lifestyle brands, is departing AOL to join fashion rental service Rent the Runway as president. In her current role, Sullivan has been overseei

Latin American investors Kaszek Ventures have kicked off 2015 with back-to-back investments in startups founded and run by Brazilian women -- Dress & Go, a luxury apparel rental site, and Love Mo

Each year, one of my genius friends throws a holiday party where everyone is supposed to wear an ugly, ill-fitting sweater outfitted with pictures of deer and berries, or lined with actual mistletoe.

E-commerce startups have been working at the online-offline game for a while now, in the form of pop-up shops and brick-and-mortar investments like Warby Parker's New York <a href="https://beta.techcr

Rent the Runway, the site that has been leasing designer dresses to women at a fraction of retail price since 2009, is launching its first mobile app today. With the understanding that their target cu

Back in November, we <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/11/30/the-netflix-for-designer-clothes-rent-the-runway-raises-20m-from-vogue-publisher-conde-nast-and-kleiner-perkins/">wrote</a> that <a

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.renttherunway.com/">Rent The Runway,</a> a Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry, has raised $20 million in funding led by Condé Nast Publications,

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.renttherunway.com/">Rent The Runway,</a> a Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry, is debuting a new way for women to search for designs to rent on t

As I’ve written about <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/why-women-rule-the-internet/">before</a>, we’re in an amazing period of the consumer Internet.  Despite a shaky economy, many

Leveraging the <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/kleiner-perkins-invests-15m-in-rent-the-runway/">success of Rent The Runway's model</a>, <a href="https://luxemi.com/">Luxemi</a> is laun