Modernmale barbershop

What Modernmale barbershop does

Modern Male Barbershop is a privately held, owner-operated barbershop chain founded in 2008 and headquartered in Sellersville, Pennsylvania. The company operates nine retail barbershop locations concentrated in Bucks County and Montgomery County in southeastern Pennsylvania, offering men's haircuts (fades, skin fades, flat tops, tapers, classic cuts, mullets), beard grooming, straight razor shaves, and children's haircuts. Its customer base is predominantly individual men and their sons, with a secondary segment of event organizers (weddings, bachelor parties, birthdays, community events) served through a 3-chair Mobile Barbershop Bus.

The business is built around an integrated ecosystem of physical retail, event services, education, and direct-to-consumer product sales. Technology infrastructure consists of Zenoti-based online appointment booking linked to each shop's page on the company's website, plus dedicated iOS and Android mobile applications for booking. The company owns and operates Modern Male Barber Academy at 209 North Main Street, Lansdale, PA, which trains and licenses new barbers and feeds the chain's workforce pipeline. Auxiliary revenue lines include the modernmaleproducts.com e-commerce store for grooming products, apparel, and gift cards, private event hosting at Perkasie and Souderton, and a Model Program that offers apprentice-practice services.

The go-to-market model is direct-to-consumer with brand-and-community-driven acquisition. Marketing relies on organic social (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube), SEO via the company website, mobile-app-based retention, and community engagement (most visibly the annual Grow-a-Pair Cut-a-Thon charitable fundraiser for men's cancer research conducted in partnership with Abington-Jefferson Health). Pricing is not publicly disclosed; services are booked through the Zenoti platform or by phone on a pay-as-you-go basis. The company appears independently owned by Nick (Nicky the Barba), with no disclosed external investors, funding rounds, or institutional ownership.

Name

Modernmale barbershop

Legal name

Modern Male Barber Shop

Website

https://modernmalebarbershop.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Modern Male Barbershop operates nine men's grooming retail locations across Bucks and Montgomery Counties in Pennsylvania, offering haircuts, beard grooming, and shaves via Zenoti booking and a mobile app, with adjacent revenue from a barber training academy, a mobile barbershop bus for events, and a grooming products e-commerce store.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Men's Grooming Services

NAICS

Barber Shops (812111), Cosmetology and Barber Schools (611511), Cosmetics, Beauty Supplies, and Perfume Retailers (456120)

akta.pro primary industry

Classic Barbering (Cuts & Styling) (HSALABAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Beard & Mustache Grooming (HSALABAB), Mobile Barbering & Men’s Grooming (HSALAMAB), Barber & Professional Men’s Grooming Products (CRABAGAK)

Keywords

• Men's grooming services
• Barbershop chains
• Haircut services
• Beard grooming
• Barber training

Headquarters

HQ city

Perkasie

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Barbershop Services: Core revenue from haircut, beard grooming, and razor shave services at 9 physical locations. Services include men's haircuts, kid haircuts, beard trimming, and straight razor shaves.
2. Grooming Products: Sale of men's grooming products, apparel, and gift cards through modernmaleproducts.com
3. Mobile Barbershop Services: Mobile barbershop bus services for special occasions including weddings, bachelor parties, community events, and birthdays
4. Barber Academy Training: Modern Male Barber Academy provides barber training and licensing programs. Located at 209 North Main Street, Lansdale, PA 19446

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Modern Male Barbershop delivers traditional and modern men's grooming services — haircuts (fades, skin fades, flat tops, classic cuts, mullets), beard trimming and grooming, straight razor shaves, and kid haircuts — across 9 physical barbershop locations in Southeastern Pennsylvania. The chain also operates a Mobile Barbershop Bus for events, a Barber Academy providing licensed barber training, and sells men's grooming products, apparel, and gift cards through its own e-commerce storefront.

Product overview

Modern Male Barbershop operates as a multi-location barbershop chain offering traditional and modern men's grooming services across 9 Pennsylvania locations. The company's product portfolio centers on core barbershop services (haircuts, beard grooming, straight razor shaves) delivered at physical shop locations, complemented by a Mobile Barbershop Bus for off-site events, a Barber Academy for training, a Model Program for apprentice practice, and a dedicated Grooming Products e-commerce store. The company also hosts annual community events like the Grow-a-Pair Cut-a-Thon for cancer awareness. Digital offerings include mobile apps for both iOS and Android platforms for appointment booking.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Modern Male Barber Academy: Barber education and training school operated by the company
• Modern Male Mobile Barbershop

Products and services

• Barbershop Services Traditional and modern men's haircut services including fades, skin fades, flat tops, classic cuts, beard trimming, beard grooming, straight razor shaves, and kid haircuts, delivered at 9 retail locations across Pennsylvania for individual male clients and their sons.
• Mobile Barbershop Bus A mobile barbershop service featuring a fully equipped 3-chair bus that provides full-service men's grooming on-site at weddings, bachelor parties, community events, and birthdays.
• Modern Male Barber Academy Professional barber training and licensing program for aspiring barbers, taught at the Lansdale, PA academy facility, with documented alumni progressing into working barbers within the chain.
• Modern Male Grooming Products Own-brand men's grooming products, apparel, and gift cards sold direct-to-consumer through the modernmaleproducts.com e-commerce storefront.
• Private Events at Shop Locations Private event hosting services including bachelor parties, cigar nights, and wedding parties held at the Perkasie and Souderton barbershop locations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 15th Annual Grow-a-Pair Cut-a-Thon raising funds for men's cancer research at Abington-Jefferson Health

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Abington-Jefferson HealthminorOthers · 30 August 2026Annual Grow-a-Pair Cut-a-Thon event raises funds for men's cancer research with all proceeds donated to Abington-Jefferson Health to support men battling cancer. This is a charitable giving partnership tied to the annual community event.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Cost Cutters: Franchised value-priced hair salon chain with hundreds of U.S. locations. Comparable in multi-unit walk-in haircut model, though serving a more value-oriented segment.
• Great Clips: Largest hair salon franchise in North America with thousands of walk-in salons. Directly comparable in multi-unit men's and family haircut service delivery and online check-in model.
• Sport Clips Haircuts: Largest men's and boys' sports-themed hair care franchise in the U.S. with thousands of locations. Directly comparable as a multi-location men's haircut chain using walk-in/appointment service model, even though Modern Male is not franchise-based.
• Roosters Men's Grooming Center: Franchised men's grooming center offering haircuts, hot towel shaves, and scalp massages in a traditional barbershop atmosphere. Most direct franchise analogue to Modern Male's traditional-but-modern positioning.
• Floyd's 99 Barbershop: Franchised full-service men's barbershop offering cuts, shaves, and color services with a rock-and-roll atmosphere. Comparable as a multi-location men's specialty chain targeting similar clientele.

Broad incumbents

• The Art of Shaving: Established premium men's grooming brand combining retail storefronts, barber services, and proprietary shaving products. Comparable on the combination of service + men's grooming product retail that Modern Male emulates with modernmaleproducts.com.
• Empire Beauty Schools: One of the largest cosmetology and barbering school operators in the U.S. Comparable to Modern Male Barber Academy as a regulated trade-school provider producing licensed barbers.
• Paul Mitchell The School: National network of cosmetology and barbering schools with standardized curricula and brand. Comparable as a regulated barber-school operator feeding the licensed barber workforce.

Emerging players

• Shaves2U: Mobile and on-demand men's grooming service offering at-home shaves and haircuts in select U.S. markets. Comparable in the mobile/convenience barberservice niche that the Modern Male Mobile Barbershop Bus also serves.
• Blind Barber: Bicoastal barbershop-and-product brand combining walk-in barbershop services with proprietary men's grooming product lines. Comparable as a younger, brand-led men's grooming concept combining service and retail.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCJXjXbCnL_-9V1K4wEM9ybw?view_as=subscriber
• Facebookfacebook.com/TheModernMaleBarberShop
• Instagraminstagram.com/modernmalebarbershop
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/modernmale-barbershop

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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