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Quince

Quince sells premium-material apparel and home goods directly from factories to consumers, cutting out retail intermediaries to price cashmere sweaters at $50 instead of $250.

quince.com · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·QUINCE·26
StageSeries EMarch 2026[14]
Raised$956Mdisclosed rounds[14]
Headcount741as of May 2026[11]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2018[7][11]
Money

Raised $956M across disclosed rounds.[14]

Series E closed March 2026.[14]

Round size, post-money valuation, and the full investor list are not publicly disclosed.

People

Sid Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO[8][9][10]

Sourabh Mahajan, Co-Founder & CTO[8][9][10]

Becky Mortimer, Co-Founder[8][9][10]

Zunu Mittal, Co-Founder[8][9][10]

Sejal Iyer, Head of Ecommerce[20][21][10][11]

Christopher Sung, General Manager, Men's Merchandise & Growth[20][21][10][11]

Atul Laddad, Vice President, Supply Chain[20][21][10][11]

Carin Falconer, Vice President, Customer Experience[20][21][10][11]

Matt Lippert, Head of Product Merchandising and Supply Chain[20][21][10][11]

Imran Mohammad, Director, Sourcing & Production[20][21][10][11]

Signals
Jun 1 2026newsQuince is testing physical retail with pop-ups[17]
May 11 2026newsDTC Darling Quince Projects Doubling Men's Sales by Next Year[16]
Apr 6 2026newsHow Quince Built a Better Retail Model to Democratize Quality | Notable Capital[18]
Mar 11 2026fundingEXCLUSIVE: Quince Closes $500 Million Series E at $10.1 Billion Valuation - Smudge Report[15][19]
Comps

Everlane · everlane.com · Same buyer (price-conscious millennial/Gen Z consumer), same workflow (DTC apparel purchase displacing department store or fast-fashion spend), same product category (premium basics at below-luxury prices); named alongside Quince in independent analysis as...[22][24]

UNIQLO · uniqlo.com · Same buyer and product category (premium-material basics—cashmere, merino, silk—at non-luxury prices); competes for the same discretionary apparel budget; named in independent analysis as the incumbent supply-chain model Quince's M2C platform is designed to...[22][23]

Cuyana · cuyana.com · Same buyer (quality-seeking female consumer rejecting fast fashion), same product category (natural-material apparel and accessories sold direct), same budget displacement; cited in independent analysis as a comparable DTC brand competing for the same...[22][24]

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Quince

CALL NO.CS·QUINCE·26

Quince sells premium-material apparel and home goods directly from factories to consumers, cutting out retail intermediaries to price cashmere sweaters at $50 instead of $250.

quince.com · San Francisco

StageSeries E
Raised$956M
Headcount741
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2018
CompsEverlane +2