PrettyQuick
"Uber" for salons and spas: PrettyQuick takes the pain out of finding and booking recommended beauty appointments that work for YOU!
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Internet / Web Services
- Location Chicago, IL, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded June 2011
- Employees 5
- Website prettyquick.com
Company Summary
PrettyQuick makes it easy for time-pressed, urban sophisticates to find and book vetted salon and spa appointments convenient for their schedules and locations. PrettyQuick’s real-time platform allows busy service-seekers to make an appointment request when (or close to) a window of free or flexible time, and to receive multiple bids from the highest quality salons and spas around them that are able to fill their specific request.
Team
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Coco B. MeersFounder/CEOCoco is an award-winning entrepreneur and MBA student at University of Chicago. Prior to starting PrettyQuick, she worked for L'Oreal in New York and Paris, where she managed global marketing initiatives for billion dollar brands. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton with a BA English and French. A dancer and ballet lover, she founded the Joffrey Ballet's Auxiliary Board and recently joined the company's Board of Directors.
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Marcy CapronCTOMarcy is a polymath. A lifelong technologist, she has been coding since she was a little girl. She has a BA from Northwestern in Film, TV, and Communication studies, and is a professional photographer. She combines her passion for technology and creativity to build smart start-ups that stand-out, like PrettyQuick. She is a serial entrepreneur and has been a guest mentor for the Lean Start-Up Circle in Chicago and New York.
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Matt HooksHead of EngineeringLike fellow team members Coco and Marcy, Matt has a passion for bringing together technology and the arts. A dual Theater and Computer Science major at Duke, Matt has been designing and developing web applications professionally since 2006. His specialties include real-time technology as well as Ruby, Rails, and Javascript.
Advisors
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Bart Loethan, Synergy Law GroupLawyerUnconfirmed
Karen Leavitt, Leavitt & SiegalAccountantUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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The University of Chicago Polsky Center for EntrepreneurshipUnconfirmed
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