Lease the Runway co-founder Jenny Fleiss and Volition Capital’s Larry Cheng discuss early-stage fundraising on TechCrunch Dwell – TechCrunch

Lease the Runway is greater than 10 years outdated now and has raised upwards of $500 million, just lately submitting to IPO at a valuation north of $1 billion.

Jenny Fleiss is a co-founder at Lease the Runway and sits on the board of a number of notable corporations, together with Shutterfly, Social gathering Metropolis and, in fact, Lease the Runway. She’s additionally a accomplice at Volition Capital alongside Larry Cheng.

On an upcoming episode of TechCrunch Dwell, Fleiss and Cheng will sit down to debate the early days of Lease the Runway — how the corporate efficiently fundraised, grew and navigated its technique to unicorn standing. They’ll additionally discuss by means of the present early-stage fundraising panorama, which is sort of unrecognizable from the setting Fleiss fundraised in a decade in the past. This episode takes place Wednesday, November 10, at 12 p.m. PT / 3 p.m. ET. Register free of charge right here!

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