Squire Technologies YC Application

Summer 2016Active

Squire Technologies went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 batch as a Consumer company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2016
Industry: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 150
Status: Active
Launched: 2016

Founders

Songe LaRonFounder/CEO
Dave SalvantFounder/President

What Squire Technologies does

Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers worldwide. Squire makes it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments and better market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. Fully integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business. With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry worldwide. For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the Squire iOS app from the App Store.

Squire Technologies's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Squire Technologies, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Squire Technologies

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Platform to grow your barbershop and maximize profitability.

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built a booking and payment platform connecting customers with barbers worldwide. Our product also manages barbershops through bookings, payments, payroll, inventory, and marketing tools tailored for barbershop owners.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in New York, NY, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where our founding team is based and where we have established early customers; it's a major hub for barbershops and suits our focus.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Squire Technologies YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Squire Technologies's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Squire Technologies would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.