Dollar Shave Club

eCommerce & Marketplaces · Marina del Rey, United States · Founded 2012

Dollar Shave Club decided to skip the line and go straight to the customer by creating a razor subscription service MoreLess

Dollar Shave Club, established in 2011, revolutionized the shaving industry with a direct-to-consumer model that bypassed traditional retail channels. The company offers a subscription service for grooming products, primarily targeting men. Its product lineup includes razors, shaving creams, and other personal care items, all designed to provide high quality at an affordable price. Dollar Shave Club generates revenue through subscription fees and sales of individual products. The company has expanded its market presence globally and is available in tens of thousands of retail stores. Known for its irreverent humor and disruptive approach, Dollar Shave Club continues to innovate in the grooming sector.

Keywords: grooming, subscription, razors, shaving, personal care, direct-to-consumer, affordability, quality, global, retail.

Valuation $1–2.5B

Revenue $50–100M

Headcount 100–500

Total funding $100–500M

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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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Dollar Shave Club's talent

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Team profiled 70 named & role-tagged

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 3 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

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Investors

14 investors on Dollar Shave Club's cap table

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Seed 6 investors entered at this stage

White Star Capital

Series A 4 investors entered at this stage

Venrock

Battery Ventures

Comcast Ventures

Adeyemi Ajao

Series B+ 4 investors entered at this stage

TCV

Sina Afra

Dragoneer Investment Group

Nexus Capital Management

Global footprint

Where Dollar Shave Club has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

7 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States84.7%

🇮🇱 Israel8.9%

🇧🇷 Brazil3.8%

🇪🇸 Spain0.6%

🇮🇪 Ireland0.6%

Top 5 of 7 shown

Web traffic by country

1.5M monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States92%

🇨🇦 Canada1.9%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom1.8%

🇦🇺 Australia1.2%

🇳🇿 New Zealand0.6%

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Patent intelligence

$5M patent portfolio · 3 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$5M

0.49% of valuation · 8.1× larger than top peer Grove Collaborative ($608k)

3 active patent families

Where Dollar Shave Club innovates Classical mechanicsEnd systemHandling systemIndustrial engineeringKnife blades

Where Dollar Shave Club concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Dollar Shave Club and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Dollar Shave Club

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