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Booker

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Booker is transforming the way local services are managed by businesses and discovered by consumers. Booker replaces everything from manual methods to disconnected software, and unifies the essential components of running a service business into a single web-based platform, accessible from any device.

Booker also enables service business to sell their services online, through their website and a network of partner sites and apps, creating a seamless online booking experience for consumers. Booker processes over one million appointments each month across 70 countries. Headquartered in New York City, Booker’s customers include Fortune 500 companies as well as thousands of local service businesses.

HISTORY

We started as a division of SpaFinder (located in Gramercy, NYC) in 2007 with a SaaS product called SpaBooker. Our focus was to deliver one platform for spas to manage their business, and SpaBooker was an instant success. We quickly expanded the team, feature set, and customer base. Building on our success, we decided to spin out SpaBooker to bring even more focus on growing the business by entering new verticals, and helping publishers add booking to their online user experience.

We realized this vision stretched beyond the name SpaBooker, leading us to spin out as GramercyOne, with SpaBooker as its product. Shortly thereafter, we brought on new investors in our Series A financing of $14.5M, enabling us to build out our executive team, enter several new verticals, and sign new partnerships with major publishers. Over the following year, as we continued our breakout growth, we recognized that our name was creating an unneeded divide between our company and our products. We decided to bring it all together with a simple name born from our core offering – Booker.

Recent Milestones

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  Booker received $27.5M in Series B funding. (4/17/13)
  Posted 4/16/13 at 9:07pm via techcrunch.com
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  Booker added Tom Karrat as Chief Revenue Officer. (6/4/12)
  Posted 6/12/12 at 6:03am
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  Booker added Joel Laffer as VP, Marketing. (2/27/12)
  Posted 10/28/12 at 7:08pm
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  Booker added Matthew Mahoney as VP, Business Development. (1/3/12)
  Posted 5/1/13 at 2:29pm
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  Booker received $14.5M in Series A funding. (10/19/11)
  Posted 10/19/11 at 6:05pm via techcrunch.com
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  Booker added Don Rainey as Director. (10/1/11)
  Posted 8/7/12 at 9:00am
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  Booker added Don Rainey as Director. (9/15/11)
  Posted 8/7/12 at 6:33am
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  Booker added Dan Chandre as Vice President, Strategic Development . (10/1/10)
  Posted 3/9/11 at 3:22pm
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  Booker added Daniel Lizio-Katzen as Co-Founder & COO. (10/1/10)
  Posted 3/9/11 at 3:22pm
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  Booker added Josh McCarter as Chief Executive Officer. (10/1/10)
  Posted 3/9/11 at 3:22pm
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  Booker acquired SpaBooker. (10/1/10)
  Posted 10/14/11 at 5:32am via spabookerblog.com
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  Booker added Tracey Solanas as Vice President, Sales. (10/1/10)
  Posted 3/9/11 at 3:22pm
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  Booker added James Bremner as Vice President, Marketing. (7/1/10)
  Posted 3/9/11 at 3:22pm

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Sources

1. SpaBooker Blog (spabookerblog.com) [edit]
2. GramercyOne Raises $14.5M From Revolution, Others For Cloud-based Business Management Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Operations And Service Management SaaS Booker Raises $27.5M From Bain Capital Ventures, Revolution And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]