SoftBank-backed barbershop booking service Squire raised $60m at a $750m valuation while card issuing platform developer Lithic was valued at $800m in a round featuring Exor.

Funding

Squire Technologies, a US-headquartered online barbershop booking platform backed by telecommunications and internet group SoftBank, has tripled its valuation to $750m in a $60m series D round led by hedge fund manager Tiger Global Management. The round also featured Iconiq Capital, CRV and Trinity Ventures, and all four had joined SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, New General Market Ventures and various private investors in Squire’s $59m series C round in December 2020. Its overall debt and equity financing now stands…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.