Company type | Private |
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Industry | Baby Products, Diapers |
Founded | 2018 |
Founder | Sergio Radovcic |
Headquarters | Scottsdale, Arizona, US |
Products | Dyper Bamboo Diapers & others |
Number of employees | 92 (2022) |
Website | dyper.com |
Dyper, popularly known as DYPER, is an American brand of plant-based diapers. Founded in 2014 by Sergio Radovcic, Dyper was founded to create a 'safely compostable diaper', minimizing environmental impact. The company's main product, their bamboo diapers, are sold both direct to consumer on a subscription model, and in retail stores.
In 2020, the company raised $20m to expand their product range into other ranges in the baby and body categories. Dyper's product range includes plant-based training pants and cloth diapers, as well as wipes, creams and lotions.
Dyper was founded in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2019 by Sergio Radovcic, a serial entrepreneur, as a challenger-brand 'sustainable alternative to traditional disposable diapers'.[1] Phoenix Magazine noted Dyper 'originated from an idea that formed in [Radovcic's] mind while he wheeled garbage cans filled with his kids’ diapers week after week'.[2] AP quoted their mission as 'to divert diapers from landfills'.[3][4]
In 2020, Dyper acquired Earth Baby, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, which had been the only diaper composting service in the United States since 2008.[5] The acquisition brought pickup and delivery to customers in the Bay Area, and allowed for expansion via local market delivery and in house composting.[6] The company announced plans for local market expansion into Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, and Las Vegas.[7] By 2021, Dyper had 48 employees.[1]
By early 2022, Dyper announced expansion to Thrive Market, followed by its first 'brick and mortar' availability in Whole Foods.[8][9][10] This was followed by Walmart later in 2022.[11][12][13] In late 2022, Forbes named Dyper the 'diaper delivery service of the year'.[14]
In April 2022, Dyper announced a partnership with rePurpose Global to remove plastic waste from the environment, and their intention to be 'the first plastic-neutral diapers'.[15][16] They later announced they had removed 100,000 kg of plastic waste from the environment.[17][18] Later in the year, Dyper announced they had become a B-Corp, and their intention to be 'the first plastic-neutral diapers'.[15][16]
REDYPER was announced by Dyper in 2020, partnering with TerraCycle to allow customers to 'compost [their diapers] by mail'.[19][20][21][3] The Verge noted Dyper is the first compostable diaper, and the program works on a subscription model as an add-on service, sending boxes for users to return their diapers with.[22][23][24][25]
In October 2019, Dyper received investment from HCAP Partners.[26] In 2020, Dyper raised a further $20m from existing investor HCAP and others.[27][28]
Dyper advertises their products as free from 'chlorine, latex, alcohol, lotions, TBT or Phthalates', and their diapers as made from bamboo fibers.
Radovcic launched Scottsdale-based Dyper, a carbon and plastic neutral subscription-based diaper service for parents in 2018. Dyper uses compostable and fully biodegradable materials in the diaper, making it carbon neutral.
his company — which is already a leader in the green diaper industry — originated from an idea that formed in his mind while he wheeled garbage cans filled with his kids' diapers week after week
"Sustainable" and "plant-based" aren't just buzzy menu descriptors anymore. With Phoenix company DYPER, even baby tushes are getting the eco-treatment. It offers subscriptions to unscented bamboo diapers (also available: cloth diapers) sans alcohol, chlorine, latex and lotions. "I started the company to solve three problems: never running out of diapers, treating my daughter's bum with no harmful chemicals and leaving a better planet behind for my three children," owner Sergio Radovcic says.
DYPER, the rapidly growing eco-friendly diaper delivery service is making another stride in its mission to divert diapers from landfills
Also, the company BioBag, which sells compostable bags, has partnered with the compostable diaper service EarthBaby to set up a doggie poop collection site at the open space at 23rd and Carolina streets on Potrero Hill.
DYPER now takes this next step in its eco-promise and announces expansion via local market delivery and in house composting.
including immediate plans for local market expansion in Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada
"Having our products on the shelves in Whole Foods Market stores is a landmark event for our company - and our customers," said Sergio Radovcic, founder and CEO of DYPER.
Today the company announces its partnership with TerraCycle to implement the REDYPER composting program in the U.S., making it turnkey for existing and new subscribers to return their soiled-diapers for composting.
While it's not the only diaper delivery service, Dyper says its product is the first compostable diaper ever created.
Aside from providing customers with a shop-on-demand option, Dyper also offers a subscription model and a composting service (called ReDyper) that — get this — allows you to mail back your child's dirty nappies.
– DYPER, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based maker of eco-friendly diapers, raised $20 million in funding. The Craftory led the round and was joined by investors including HCAP.