Squarespace

Squarespace, Inc.
Headquarters in Manhattan
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
SaaS-based hosting platform
Traded asNYSE: SQSP
Headquarters225 Varick Street
New York City, New York,
United States
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerPermira
Founder(s)Anthony Casalena
CEOAnthony Casalena
IndustryInternet
ProductsWebsite builder and hosting service
RevenueIncrease US$1.01 billion (2023)[1]
Employees1,749 (2023)[1]
URLsquarespace.com
RegistrationRequired; subscription needed for certain features.
LaunchedJanuary 2004; 20 years ago (2004-01)

Squarespace, Inc. is an American website building and hosting company based in New York City.[2] 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,[3] and was taken private by Permira in October 2024. According to W3Techs, Squarespace is used by 1.9% of the top 10 million websites.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Squarespace 2023 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 28, 2024.
  2. ^ "Squarespace Offices / A+I". ArchDaily. July 31, 2018. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  3. ^ Giles, Margaret (May 19, 2021). "What to Know as Squarespace Goes Public". Morningstar.com. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  4. ^ "Usage statistics and market share of Squarespace". w3techs.com. Retrieved March 11, 2022.