Bandit Running looks like a scrappy Brooklyn running crew, but it's taken at least $14.2 million in venture capital from investors including Alex Rodriguez's A-Rod Corp, with some funding trackers suggesting a higher total that hasn't been independently confirmed. All three co-founders still run the company day to day, and its labor record is clean. It names no suppliers or factories and holds no environmental certification of any kind. The company answers to its venture investors on strategy, and to whichever manufacturers it hasn't yet named.