Squarespace
Headquarters in Manhattan | |
| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
Type of site | SaaS-based hosting platform |
| Traded as | NYSE: SQSP |
| Headquarters | 225 Varick Street New York City, New York, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | Permira |
| Founder(s) | Anthony Casalena |
| CEO | Anthony Casalena |
| Industry | Internet |
| Products | Website builder and hosting service |
| Revenue | US$1.01 billion (2023) |
| Employees | 1,749 (2023) |
| URL | squarespace |
| Registration | Required; subscription needed for certain features. |
| Launched | January 2004 |
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Squarespace, Inc. is an American website building and hosting company based in New York City. It provides software as a service for website building and hosting, and allows users to use pre-built website templates and drag-and-drop elements to create and modify webpages.
In 2003, Anthony Casalena founded Squarespace as a blog hosting service while attending the University of Maryland, College Park. He was its only employee until 2006 when it reached $1 million in revenue. The company grew from 30 employees in 2010 to 550 by 2015. By 2014, it raised a total of $78.5 million in venture capital; added e-commerce tools, domain name services, and analytics; and replaced its coding backend with drag-and-drop features. It began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on May 19, 2021, and was taken private by Permira in October 2024. According to W3Techs, Squarespace is used by 1.9% of the top 10 million websites.