Squarespace raises $38.5M from Index Ventures and Accel Partners

Carbonmade's offices are two floors above Squarespace's in SoHo, New York and I've gotten to know Anthony (founder) and Dane (CEO) rather well over the past year. They're such great, smart, and talented people. They really know how to run an awesome team and only hire the best people. They've got a great culture in place and always treat their employees very well.

The thing I respect most about Squarespace -- and Anthony mentions this briefly in his letter -- is that they're always one step ahead of everyone else and aren't afraid to take the risk in pivoting into a new direction. Squarespace dropped free accounts from its service about 3 years ago when everyone else was adding free accounts and that clearly was beneficial for them. I'm excited to see what they come up with in their next release.

I've used Squarespace for the past 2+ months for my blog on NoSQL and it's been great. I looked around at the various options when I thought about starting up and in the end went with Squarespace because of two reasons:

1) It's the hosting provider of highscalability.com and Todd Hoff had a lot of good things to say about the platform. 2) I saw it as the quickest way to get something that looked good and allowed me to just start on the content.

It's not the perfect platform. Sometimes you have to some crazy things to make things work. But overall I've been a very satisfied customer.

If you are interested you can try it out for free for 14-days to see if it works for you.

Derek