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Dumb Co

Dumb Co sells a flip phone that syncs to your smartphone so you can leave the smartphone at home.

dumb.co · Washington

CALL NO.CS·DUMB·26
Stagenot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Raisednot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2025[13][11]
Money

No filing, no announced round, no reported figure.

No public funding found.

People

Daniel Hogenkamp, CEO[5][9][11][1][10][12][22]

Jack Nugent, Chief Technology Officer[1][5][9][10][11][12][22]

Lydia Peabody, Founding Chief Marketing Officer[1][5][9][10][11][12][22]

Afreka Ebanks, Director of Brand and Communications[1][5][9][10][11][12][22]

Mikayla DiDonato, VP of Product and Operations[1][5][9][10][11][12][22]

Headcount: sources disagree
15as of Jul 2026

Dumb.co's Flip Phones Let You Reclaim Your Brain · Sep 2026[5]

dumb.co · Sep 2026[9]

Signals
Sep 14 2026newsdumb.co company claim, not independently confirmed[9]
Jul 14 2026otherDumb.co sponsors college "dumb houses" at George Washington and Georgetown with $500 toward rent[5]
Jul 14 2026newsDumb.co plans priced at $15.99 to $25.99 per month with sync and music-streaming tiers[7][5]
Jul 10 2026newsTechCrunch tests the Dumb Phone for over a month and reports the device syncs to a smartphone rather than replacing it[1]
Jul 10 2026newsDumb Co's $20 flip phone wants you to leave your iPhone at home | Logicity[2]
Feb 9 2026hiringOffline, Inc. posts summer 2026 internships in Washington, DC for tech, marketing, and business roles[12]
Comps

Light Phone · thelightphone.com · Same buyer and same job to be done: a person paying for a deliberately limited phone to cut screen time. Logicity names Light Phone as the incumbent in intentional disconnection hardware and contrasts its roughly $300 retail price with Dumb Co's $20 commodity...[2]

Punkt · punkt.ch · Same buyer and same job to be done in the disconnection hardware category; Logicity names Punkt alongside Light Phone as the niche alternative Dumb Co competes with.[2]

Month Offline · offline.community · Substitute behavior for the same buyer: Month Offline is the program Dumb Co grew out of, and a prospective customer can rent a flip phone for a month through it instead of buying a Dumb Phone.[1][5][11]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[9]

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Dumb Co

CALL NO.CS·DUMB·26

Dumb Co sells a flip phone that syncs to your smartphone so you can leave the smartphone at home.

dumb.co · Washington

Stagenot publicly disclosed
Raisednot publicly disclosed
Headcount15
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2025
CompsLight Phone +2

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