0001193125-21-301159.txt : 20211124 0001193125-21-301159.hdr.sgml : 20211124 20211018170455 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-21-301159 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 FILED AS OF DATE: 20211018 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Rent the Runway, Inc. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001468327 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-RETAIL STORES, NEC [5990] IRS NUMBER: 800376379 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 163 VARICK ST STREET 2: 4TH FLOOR CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10013 BUSINESS PHONE: 212-206-1288 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 163 VARICK ST STREET 2: 4TH FLOOR CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10013 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm CORRESP
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Attention:    Blaise Rhodes   
   Linda Cvrkel   
   Taylor Beech   
   Jacqueline Kaufman   
Re:      Rent the Runway, Inc.   
   Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1   
   Filed October 4, 2021   
   File No. 333-260027   

Ladies and Gentlemen:

On behalf of Rent the Runway, Inc. (the “Company”), we are hereby filing Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (“Amendment No. 1”). The Company previously filed the Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on October 4, 2021 (“Registration Statement”). Amendment No. 1 has been revised to reflect the Company’s responses to the comment letter to the Registration Statement received on October 13, 2021 from the staff of the Commission (the “Staff”).

For ease of review, we have set forth below each of the numbered comments of your letter in bold type followed by the Company’s responses thereto. Unless otherwise indicated, capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in Amendment No. 1 and all references to page numbers in such responses are to page numbers in Amendment No. 1.

Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed October 4, 2021

Use of Proceeds, page 71

 

  1.

Please disclose the interest rates and maturity dates of the credit agreements under which you intend to use the net proceeds of this offering to repay certain amounts. Refer to Instruction 4 to Item 504 of Regulation S-K.


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Response: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and advises the Staff that it has revised page 77 of Amendment No. 1.

Brands and Products

Product ROI, page 92

 

  2.

We have reviewed your response to comment 2 but do not concur with your view that investors would not find the fiscal year 2020 comparable factors to be meaningful, or that they could be misleading. As requested in our prior comment, please revise to include comparable factors for fiscal year 2020.

Response: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and advises the Staff that it has revised page 98 of Amendment No. 1.

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We hope the foregoing answers are responsive to your comments. Please do not hesitate to contact me by telephone at (212) 906-1281 with any questions or comments regarding this correspondence.

 

Very truly yours,

/s/ Marc D. Jaffe

Marc D. Jaffe

of LATHAM & WATKINS LLP

 

cc:

(via email)

Jennifer Y. Hyman, Chief Executive Officer, Rent the Runway, Inc.

Scarlett O’Sullivan, Chief Financial Officer, Rent the Runway, Inc.

Cara Schembri, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Rent the Runway, Inc.

Emily E. Taylor, Latham & Watkins LLP

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