DaVinci is the vaporizer brand Cortney Smith founded in 2011, best known for the IQ line of conduction dry-herb vapes with zirconia and glass air paths. The 2026 range runs from the $99.99 MIQRO-C to the $299 IQ3, the ARTIQ 510-cartridge vape and the new EQ Electric Quartz e-rig. Since 2024 it has been back under Smith, through a Las Vegas-based company he manages with Eyce co-founder Charles Hoch.
Cortney Smith, from bungee towers to vapes
Before vaporizers, Smith was in the bungee business. In 1991 he brought commercial bungee jumping to Asia at a scale nobody had tried, and by DaVinci's telling safety was non-negotiable: every cable, tower and procedure engineered from the ground up. Years later he watched cannabis come out of prohibition with plenty of passion and technology that had not caught up.
He named the answer after Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance inventor whose vision and tenacity he cites as the inspiration, and founded DaVinci Tech in 2011. The brief was vaporizers built on an obsession with safety and engineering, and DaVinci still owns its manufacturing so it can oversee materials, engineering and quality at every stage.
From the Classic to the IQ family
The early lineup included the DaVinci Classic. The award-winning IQ arrived in 2016, and the family kept branching: the MIQRO, which DaVinci billed as the world's smallest premium loose-leaf vaporizer; the IQ2, billed as the first with on-device dosage control; and the IQC, fitted with a patented ShareSafe mouthpiece.
The current flagship is the IQ3. It holds 0.7 grams in its ceramic oven, or 0.2 grams with a stainless dosage capsule, and runs on a removable 21700 battery good for about 90 minutes, charged over USB-C. Four Smart Paths ramp the heat automatically across an eight-minute session, or precision mode sets it by hand up to 430°F.
The vapor path is zirconia and glass with no metal or plastic, a spiraled zirconia-glass Cool Core cuts vapor temperature by roughly half compared with earlier IQ models, and an Air Dial gives four airflow positions.
DaVinci pitches the IQ3 directly against the PAX 3 from PAX Labs and the Crafty+ from Storz & Bickel in the premium portable tier. Its edge, as DaVinci tells it, is the removable battery, finer temperature control, the Cool Core and that all-zirconia-and-glass air path.
IQ Core and MIQRO-C
The $199 IQ Core strips the IQ3 down to the essentials. It keeps the all-zirconia mouthpiece and air path and a glass-lined oven, holds up to 0.5 grams with an adjustable zirconia pearl, runs four Smart Path presets and uses a removable 18650 battery rated around an hour. It drops the IQ3's AirDial.
The MIQRO-C is the pocket option: 23 by 34 by 80 millimeters, 87 grams, a glass-lined conduction oven that takes 0.3 grams or 0.2 with a dosage pod, a removable 18350 battery good for about 30 minutes, USB-C charging and a 39-second heat-up, for $99.99. The original MIQRO is still on the shelf at $99 in five colors.
ARTIQ, a cooler way to run carts
The ARTIQ is DaVinci's take on the 510 battery. A standard 0.3, 0.5 or 1-gram bottom-airflow cartridge slides inside the anodized aluminum body, and an elongated air path of 316 stainless steel with glass elements cools the vapor, by up to 90% in DaVinci's numbers. It runs three heat modes starting at 2.8 volts, packs a 760 mAh battery rated for about 500 draws and charges over USB-C with pass-through. It sells for $59.99 in black or blue.
EQ Electric Quartz
The EQ, launched March 11, 2026, is DaVinci's first dedicated concentrate device and a new lane for a brand built on dry herb.
The $549 Jacuzzi Collection kit pairs a touchscreen base with a quartz atomizer, a quartz crucible, a glass Jacuzzi bubbler and a zirconia carb cap, and DaVinci says every component the vapor touches is quartz or glass. Two removable 3,000 mAh batteries power it over USB-C with pass-through charging, and there is no app or Bluetooth to manage.
Heat is set on the screen, either by precise temperature or through Smart Path presets that run from Terpene at 480 to 500°F up to Atomic at 600 to 620°F. DaVinci also sells a $399 EQ Skyrise Limited Edition, Skyrise bubblers, zirconia and quartz crucibles and a $40 hot knife.
DaVinci runs the comparison itself. Its own EQ versus Puffco Proxy write-up puts the two in different lanes: the Proxy a $250 pocket-scale concentrate device, the EQ a $549 all-quartz system built around session control.
Greenlane, the 2024 buyback and Eyce
Greenlane Holdings agreed to buy DaVinci on October 19, 2021, in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $20 million, and closed on November 30, 2021. Smith said at the time that DaVinci had been committed to approaching product development "with vision and imagination."
The Greenlane era lasted less than three years. Under an agreement effective May 1, 2024, a Nevada company managed by Smith and Eyce co-founder Charles Hoch bought all of the intellectual property, specified inventory and other assets of the DaVinci and Eyce brands from Greenlane, with a six-month preliminary distribution deal for Greenlane attached.
Greenlane has since remade itself as a Berachain token treasury company, raising more than $110 million in October 2025, while DaVinci now sells as DaVinci Vaporizer US.