The Shave

What The Shave does

The Shave is a privately held, for-profit company described in firmographic records as providing beauty, cosmetic, and personal care services. It is headquartered in Incheon, South Korea, with no disclosed founding date, employee count, ownership structure, or geographic footprint beyond its domestic base. No product catalog, service menu, pricing model, customer base, management team, or revenue figures are available in the source data. The company's sole documented digital asset was a hosted webpage at theshave.modoo.at, a free website builder provided by Naver.

The Naver modoo! platform, which hosted the company's website, was terminated by Naver on June 26, 2025, as part of an internal service operation policy decision, and the page is no longer operational. This platform termination removes the only verifiable artifact associated with the company from public view. No subsequent corporate communications, relaunch efforts, alternative web properties, or operational signals are present in the available data. Source records describe the company's operating status as "closed" based on this event, though this reflects the disappearance of the hosted page rather than a confirmed business dissolution.

There is no information on funding history, investors, strategic partners, certifications, regulatory filings, or any operational metrics such as bookings, transactions, or active service locations. The complete absence of substantive operational data across nearly every dimension — combined with the loss of its only public web presence — limits any inference about the company's current commercial state, scale, or viability.

Name

The Shave

Website

https://theshave.modoo.at/

Company type

Private

Operating status

Closed

Short description

The Shave is a private South Korean company based in Incheon that is described as providing beauty, cosmetic, and personal care services, with no additional operational, product, or revenue details available in source data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Beauty and Personal Care Services

akta.pro primary industry

Hot Towel Shaves & Straight-Razor Shaving (HSALABAC)

Keywords

• Beauty services
• Cosmetic services
• Personal care
• Grooming services
• Salon services

Headquarters

HQ city

Incheon

HQ country

South Korea

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

The Shave is a beauty, cosmetic, and personal care services provider based in Incheon, South Korea. The company operated a website on Naver's modoo! platform (theshave.modoo.at) as its online presence; that platform was discontinued by Naver on June 26, 2025. The specific service menu, treatments, or product offerings are not documented in the available source data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• The Art of Shaving: The Art of Shaving is a specialty retailer and service provider focused on premium straight-razor shaves and shaving products. Directly comparable to The Shave on the core proposition of dedicated shaving services and retail.
• Truefitt & Hill: Truefitt & Hill operates luxury barbershops offering traditional hot-towel straight-razor shaves and men's grooming services. Closely aligned service model and customer experience to a shave-focused Korean services concept.
• Fellow Barber: Fellow Barber is a modern barbershop chain offering premium men's haircuts and shave services with a focus on retail product attach. Comparable service mix and target customer to a specialty shave services business.

Emerging players

• Harry's: Harry's is a men's grooming brand offering razors, shave products, and related grooming services/items. Comparable category focus on shaving, with overlapping product/service mix even if its primary model is DTC retail.
• Dollar Shave Club: Dollar Shave Club is a men's grooming brand built around razors and shave-related personal-care products. Shares the shaving-specific consumer value proposition and product/category adjacency with The Shave.
• Bevel: Bevel is a men's grooming brand offering razors, shave prep, and post-shave products targeted at men of color. Comparable niche focus on men's shaving experience, though primarily a product brand rather than a services business.

Broad incumbents

• Gillette (Procter & Gamble): Gillette is the dominant global shaving-hardware brand, offering manual and electric razors and shave preparation products. Comparable category, though at vastly greater scale and with a product rather than services focus.

Regional players

• Juno Hair: Juno Hair is a major Korean hair-salon chain offering haircuts and related personal-care services. Relevant as a Korean personal-care services peer with comparable geography and target customer base, even though its core offering is broader than shaving.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks4 records

Key highlights2 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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