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The Salon Software That Waited 30 Years for Outside Money - and What Beauty Operators Can Steal From Its Playbook
Millennium Systems International turned an 18-year-old's salon POS into Meevo, a cloud operating system used by more than 150,000 people a day. Its advantage is also its risk: three decades of industry detail packed into software that must now feel as simple as a booking link.
Vagaro
Vagaro is a Pleasanton, California SaaS company that runs the back office for salons, spas, fitness studios, and wellness businesses. From a single dashboard, owners book appointments, take payments, manage staff and inventory, run marketing, and get discovered on a consumer marketplace and app. Founded in 2009 by Fred Helou, it now serves more than 83,000 businesses across the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, reached a $1 billion valuation in 2021, and bundles scheduling, point-of-sale hardware, embedded payments, and AI tools into one subscription.
Danielle Cohen-Shohet
Danielle Cohen-Shohet is the CEO and co-founder of GlossGenius, the all-in-one booking, payments and point-of-sale platform built for salons, spas and independent beauty professionals. A summa cum laude Princeton graduate and former Goldman Sachs analyst, she taught herself to code and wrote the first version of the product after running a freelance makeup business out of her dorm room. Founded with co-founder Karim Butt and run alongside her twin sister Leah, GlossGenius now serves tens of thousands of beauty and wellness businesses, crossed roughly $100M in revenue, and reached a $510M valuation on its 2023 Series C.