
Beauty booking startup Fresha hits $1 billion valuation with KKR backing - The Tech Buzz
Fresha is a beauty and wellness booking marketplace that provides an operating system for beauty businesses, combining appointment scheduling, point-of-sale payments, inventory management, and customer relationship tools into a single platform. It targets the fragmented beauty industry, which has lagged in digitization, and offers its core software for free while taking a cut of transactions processed through the platform.
Beauty booking startup Fresha hits $1 billion valuation with KKR backing The Tech Buzz
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