quip NYC Inc.

Who owns quip? Quip is a private, venture-backed company, legally quip NYC Inc. Co-founder Simon Enever remains CEO; major investors include Sherpa Capital, Blue Scorpion Investments, and TD Cowen.

Is quip the same as Quip the Salesforce product? No. Quip the oral care company is a separate business from Quip, the productivity software Salesforce acquired in 2016. They share only a name.

How does the quip subscription work? Customers buy a starter brush and opt into a refill plan that ships new brush heads, toothpaste, and batteries roughly every three months for a flat fee.

Where is quip made? Quip is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, and designs its products in-house. Manufacturing is handled by contract partners, primarily in Asia.

Industrial designer Simon Enever and engineer Bill May founded quip in Brooklyn in February 2015, launching the first toothbrushes that November. The pitch was that most electric brushes were ugly, expensive, and complicated, and that a simple $25 brush with refillable heads could win on design.

Early traction was strong. A $10 million Series A in 2017, backed by investors including Demi Lovato and Sherpa Capital, funded the Target retail expansion. A $40 million round followed in November 2018, and by January 2019 the company had sold more than one million brushes and signed up one million refill subscribers.

The product line widened into toothpaste, floss, a water flosser, gum, whitening strips, and a kids brush. A $100 million Series B in August 2021 pushed total funding near $180 million and supported expansion into professional services, including a teledentistry and dental-network initiative. The company remains independent under Enever, competing against Oral-B and Philips Sonicare at the mass tier and against Burst in the DTC channel it pioneered.

Quip's refill model reduces full-device waste relative to disposable brushes, and the company has run take-back programs for used heads. It holds no major third-party sustainability certifications.