What Kiute does

Kiute is a Paris-based online and mobile booking platform founded in 2014 that helps French consumers find nearby beauty professionals and book appointments through a location-based marketplace. The platform serves the fragmented French beauty and wellness sector, connecting end consumers with providers across categories including hairdressing, barbering, nail care, beauty institutes, spas, waxing, and related services, with a web presence at kiute.fr.

The underlying technology is a standard two-sided marketplace with web and mobile interfaces, location-based search, and appointment scheduling. No proprietary technology, AI/ML capabilities, patents, or differentiated platform architecture are disclosed in the available data, and the technology stack is not enumerated. The company is led by co-founder Nael Hamameh as VP Product & Tech, with co-founder Jean de La Porte as VP Sales & Marketing responsible for provider supply and consumer acquisition.

Kiute's business model follows a marketplace revenue mechanics typical of vertical SaaS/booking platforms, though specific pricing, take rates, and revenue model details are not disclosed in the input data. The company has raised approximately $10.26 million in aggregate venture funding across a 2017 round (~$1.62M led by Newfund) and a 2018 round (~$8.64M led by Serena Capital with Newfund participation). With 51-100 employees and a Paris headquarters, Kiute operates at mid-sized scale for a French beauty-tech marketplace. The co-founder trio — CEO Ilan Koskas, VP Sales & Marketing Jean de La Porte, and VP Product & Tech Nael Hamameh — provides functional coverage across strategy, GTM, and product. The absence of disclosed post-2018 strategic activity, product launches, or funding rounds in the input data is a notable signal that warrants diligence.

Name

Kiute

Legal name

Booksy Inc.

Website

https://kiute.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Kiute is a Paris-based online and mobile booking platform founded in 2014 that helps French consumers find nearby beauty professionals — including hairdressers, barbers, beauticians, nail technicians, and spas — and book appointments through a two-sided marketplace.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

Kiute operates an online and mobile marketplace that helps consumers find nearby beauty professionals and book appointments. The platform aggregates supply across multiple beauty and wellness categories — hairdressing, barbering, nail care, esthetics, spa/massage, eyebrows and lashes, tattoo and piercing, health and wellness, and home services — and supports discovery by city and service type.

Product overview

Booksy operates as a two-sided marketplace platform connecting consumers with beauty and wellness service providers. The core Booksy consumer app enables appointment booking across multiple service categories (hairdressing, barbering, nail care, beauty institutes, spas, waxing, eyelashes/sourcils, tattoo/piercing, health & wellness, and home services). The companion Booksy Biz platform serves business customers with operational tools. An additional gift card feature enables prepaid service purchases as gifts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Booksy Biz: Business portal for service providers to manage their appointments

Products and services

• Kiute Beauty Booking Platform Online and mobile appointment-booking marketplace that helps consumers find nearby beauty professionals and make appointments across categories including hairdressing, barbering, esthetics, nails, spa/massage, eyebrows and lashes, waxing, tattoo/piercing, health and wellness, and home services. Targeted at individual consumers seeking local beauty and wellness services.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Booksy: Online appointment booking platform for beauty and wellness professionals with strong operations in France. Operates a similar two-sided marketplace model connecting consumers with hairdressers, barbers, beauticians, nail technicians, and spas - making it the closest direct competitor to Kiute in the French market.
• Planity: French online booking platform for hair salons, beauty salons, and wellness professionals. Operates in the same French market with a comparable marketplace model targeting identical professional categories and consumer segments, making it a head-to-head competitor in France.
• Treatwell: European online marketplace for booking hair and beauty treatments, with operations across multiple European markets including France. Connects consumers with local beauty professionals through a similar two-sided marketplace model and has raised significantly more capital than Kiute.
• Fresha: Global beauty and wellness marketplace platform with operations across multiple continents. Offers booking, payment, and business management tools to beauty professionals - operating the same marketplace model at materially larger scale and with substantially greater capital backing.
• Vagaro: Cloud-based booking, marketing, and business management platform for beauty, wellness, and fitness professionals. Operates a similar two-sided marketplace model connecting consumers with service providers and competes for the same end markets across geographies.
• StyleSeat: Online booking platform for beauty and wellness professionals, primarily serving the North American market. Connects consumers with hair stylists, barbers, nail technicians, and other beauty service providers through a marketplace model closely comparable to Kiute's offering.
• Boulevard: Salon and spa business management software with client booking functionality. Serves high-end salons and spas with both consumer-facing booking and back-office management tools - a comparable offering to Kiute's B2B side targeting the same professional customer base.
• Resamania: French online booking platform specifically serving the beauty and wellness industry. Operates in the same French market as Kiute with comparable marketplace functionality for beauty professionals and is one of the closest French domestic competitors.

Broad incumbents

• Mindbody: Large, established SaaS platform for fitness, wellness, and beauty business management with a consumer-facing booking marketplace. While covering a broader wellness vertical, it directly competes in the beauty booking space with significantly greater scale, brand recognition, and resources.
• Square Appointments: Booking and appointment management solution from Block/Square, integrated with the broader Square payments ecosystem. Serves salons, spas, and other service-based businesses with comparable functionality, leveraging Square's larger platform and merchant base as a competitive advantage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/kiutefr

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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