Rent the Runway co-founder Jenny Fleiss and Volition Capital’s Larry Cheng talk early-stage fundraising on TechCrunch Live – TechCrunch

Hire the Runway is greater than 10 years outdated now and has raised upwards of $500 million, lately submitting to IPO at a valuation north of $1 billion.

Jenny Fleiss is a co-founder at Hire the Runway and sits on the board of a number of notable firms, together with Shutterfly, Celebration Metropolis and, in fact, Hire the Runway. She’s additionally a associate at Volition Capital alongside Larry Cheng.

On an upcoming episode of TechCrunch Dwell, Fleiss and Cheng will sit down to debate their fundraising philosophy and for Fleiss, how her expertise at constructing a unicorn influences investments in early stage startups now. They will even speak by way of the present early-stage fundraising panorama, which is sort of unrecognizable from the atmosphere 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 for free here!

TechCrunch Dwell is all about serving to founders construct higher venture-backed companies. We do that by sitting down with founders and the buyers who finance them to listen to how they selected each other, how they tackled challenges and the way profitable founders shortly develop their companies.

The weekly occasion collection additionally options the TechCrunch Dwell pitch-off, which invitations founders within the viewers to affix our digital stage and pitch their merchandise to the viewers and our professional audio system, who give dwell suggestions on the pitches.

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The present goes down each Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET/noon PT. See you there!