Squire is a technology company.
Squire is an all-in-one barbershop business management system designed to help barbers manage their schedules, clients, and payments efficiently.
Squire has raised $140.8M across 6 funding rounds.
Squire has raised $140.8M in total across 6 funding rounds.
Squire has raised $140.8M in total across 6 funding rounds.
Squire's investors include Alumni Ventures, Clear Ventures, Craft Ventures, CRV, FPV Fund, Prosperity7 Ventures, Rally Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Cherian Mathew, Steven Kamali, Battery Ventures, CapitalG.
Squire is a technology company building an all-in-one software platform for barbershops, serving barbers, shop owners, and their communities by streamlining operations and enabling growth in the $100 billion global barbering industry.[1][2][3] It offers booking, payments, POS, inventory management, payroll, CRM, and AI-driven optimizations via a mobile app and web system, processing over $1 billion in payments across 3,000 shops in more than 1,000 cities worldwide.[1][2][5] As a Series D company headquartered in New York with 170-190 employees and over $165 million raised, Squire connects customers to barbers while empowering small business owners to save time, increase revenue, and scale.[2][3][5]
Squire was founded in 2015 by Songe LaRon (CEO) and Dave Salvant (President), both Black entrepreneurs who recognized barbershops' cultural significance and operational inefficiencies after observing app-driven transformations in restaurants and ride-sharing.[1][5] Inspired by their own experiences in the industry, they launched from Y Combinator's Summer 2016 batch to create a seamless management system, starting with booking and payments.[1][5] Early traction came quickly, evolving into a full platform; by 2023, it surpassed $1 billion in processed payments, marking pivotal growth amid a barbershop boom.[1][5]
Squire rides the wave of SaaS digitization for underserved small businesses in beauty and personal services, targeting a fragmented $100 billion industry slow to adopt tech despite cultural centrality in communities.[1][2][3] Timing aligns with post-pandemic demand for contactless booking, mobile payments, and AI efficiencies, amplified by barbershop booms and fintech integration.[5] Market forces like rising entrepreneurship among barbers and global expansion favor its B2B model, positioning it as the market leader while influencing the ecosystem by elevating barbershops as scalable enterprises and fostering community uplift.[1][2]
Squire is poised for further dominance through AI enhancements, international growth (UK, Canada, Australia), and potential acquisitions in beauty tech, building on its $165M funding and $1B+ payments milestone.[2][3][5] Trends like mobile-first marketplaces, embedded fintech, and data-driven SMB tools will accelerate its trajectory, potentially expanding to adjacent sectors like salons. Its influence may evolve from operational enabler to industry standard-setter, empowering more barbers to "step into their power" in a digitized world—transforming hustle into scalable freedom, just as its founders envisioned.[1]
Squire has raised $140.8M across 6 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $60.0M Series D in July 2021.