Capri Wheaton

Investor, Palm Drive Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Capri Wheaton is a founder and investor who co-founded Thryft and created Dressd, a peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace. After operating Dressd and pitching it on The Pitch, she transitioned into venture capital, focusing on early-stage investments at Palm Drive Capital.

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6 assertions · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Wheaton: Wardrobe and Pickle aren't truly peer-to-peer and hold centralized inventory

“A lot of the examples that I've seen, for example, wardrobe or pickle, a lot of these very recent platforms that are popping up are not actually entirely peer-to-peer. They call themselves peer-to-peer, but they still have centralized closets where you pick up…”

Capri Wheaton Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 9:10 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

What they said10 Episodes1

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Disclosure

Wheaton: Dressed is raising $1.5M to scale peer-to-peer rental model

“We're raising 1.5 million to scale our peer-to-peer model that is more efficient and more scalable than Rent the Runway.”

Capri Wheaton Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 3:07 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

Assertion Contradicted

Wheaton: Wardrobe and Pickle aren't truly peer-to-peer and hold centralized inventory

Capri Wheaton Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 9:10 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

Assertion Contradicted

Wheaton: $334 billion in clothing assets sit in US women's closets

“There's three hundred thirty four billion dollars in assets sitting in women's closets across the U.S.”

Capri Wheaton Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 3:02 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

Insight

Wheaton: Organic community user acquisition takes 6–12 months but yields stickier users

“So I think that's a more, more genuine and more sticky approach to obtaining your first customers. And the downside is that that takes an incredibly long time. And I think a lot of investors don't want to hear that it's going to take six to nine months or mayb…”

Capri Wheaton Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 30:01 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

Disclosure

Wheaton: Dressed launching localized pickup beta at ASU in early 2024

“So first on the localized pickup, we are actually in the process of building that. We're launching it in January at ASU. That's going to be our first campus takeover that we're testing out the localized pickup in a beta version. So either January or February, …”

Capri Wheaton Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 12:46 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Wheaton: Previous startup Thrift reached $150k GMV in first five months

“The second thing that you mentioned kind of reminds me of the previous startup that I built, which was thrift, where we were providing software for clothing resellers who were selling over Instagram. We grew that to a 150 K GMV within the first five months of …”

Capri Wheaton Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 13:19 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

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Wheaton: Dressed onboarded 16 sororities nationwide in its first month

“I believe in the first month since launch, we've onboarded 16 entire sororities all across the country.”

Capri Wheaton Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 28:22 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

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Capri Wheaton: Dressed has 300 dresses and 4,000 signups

“So we have about 300 dresses on now and about 4000 signups.”

Capri Wheaton Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 4:09 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

Disclosure

Capri Wheaton: Dressed takes a 15% commission per rental

“Our business model right now is a commission fee from each rental, so we take a 15% commission out of every transaction.”

Capri Wheaton Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 4:38 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Capri Wheaton: Dressed went viral on TikTok with 2M views

“We have a video that has almost two million views, and so we got a lot of signups from that, but we only had about 25 dresses on the platform.”

Capri Wheaton Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 5:30 #104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
#104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?	Mar 4, 2025	13m

Capri Wheaton

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