Squarespace
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| Type of business | Private |
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SaaS-based hosting platform |
| Headquarters | New York, NY (SoHo) |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) | Anthony Casalena |
| CEO | Anthony Casalena |
| Industry | Internet |
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| Employees | 580 (as of October 2016) |
| Slogan(s) | Build it Beautiful |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 674 (As of 10 October 2016[update]) |
| Advertising | Yes. |
| Registration | Required; subscription needed for certain features. |
| Launched | January 2004 |
Squarespace is a SaaS-based content management system-integrated website builder, blogging platform, hosting service and domain name registrar. The system allows individuals and businesses to create and maintain websites and blogs. The services are only available bundled; they are not available separately. Hosting by Squarespace is mandatory: individuals and businesses cannot host their own Squarespace sites.
Since launching in 2004, Squarespace has grown to a team of 580 employees, and millions of users have created websites on the Squarespace platform.
Squarespace was founded in 2003 and launched in January 2004 by Anthony Casalena while he studied at the University of Maryland, using a $30,000 investment from his father. He created the initial software behind the company after trying and disliking other personal web page platforms. Squarespace was founded to create an all-in-one web publishing solution. On November 17, 2014, Squarespace announced that it acquired Brace.io, a website creation startup powered by cloud tools like Dropbox and Amazon Web Services. The price of the acquisition was not released.
Headquartered in New York City, the company also has offices in Portland, Oregon, and Dublin, Ireland. Of the company's 560–570 employees, 149 work at the Portland office, located in the Spalding Building.
In 2016, Squarespace was ranked #8 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list.
Squarespace's primary competitors in the website publishing industry include WordPress,Weebly, Wix.com,GoDaddy,Jimdo, Webflow, Webydo amongst others. Some of these competitors make services such as templates, hosting and domain registration available separately or in partial bundles.
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