The launchpad for India’s next generation of builders

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SquareUp
Consumer SaaS

SquareUp

AI native self-learning storefront & back-office for DTC

SquareUp is the self-learning AI team you don't hire. It builds your online store and runs it end to end - selling, retention, and support - for growing brands.

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Leaders

Rolodex of over 120 startups interested to onboard SquareUp

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Clients

Live design partners shaping the SquareUp in private beta

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uplift in sales
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uplift in retention
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01Market

The opportunity

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$ B +
COMMERCE SOFTWARE & APPS - What merchants spend on platforms + plugins yearly

Compounding annual growth · 5-year forecast

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Online Merchants - SMB Stores worldwide (Square Up's buyer)

Worldwide market opportunity

Running an online store well takes a whole team most founders can't afford: someone to build it, someone to sell, someone to win customers back, someone to answer every message. So merchants buy a website that just sits there, bolt on a dozen paid plugins, and pay agencies a retainer. The bills pile up, ad costs keep rising, most visitors never buy, and most buyers never return. The tools are everywhere; the team to run them is the gap.

02Premise

The brief

Most brands stitch together a website, a dozen paid apps, an agency, and a few hires, and still end up with a store that just sits there. SquareUp replaces all of that with one AI team: we build your complete storefront, then run it end to end - selling to every visitor, winning back customers who drift away, answering support, and cutting wasted ad spend. Built for growing D2C brands globally, focused on the US and India.

03Product Excitement

The edge

Better than humans across from designing briefs -> recruiting right people -> drafting right questions -> conducting interviews in right manner without any human biases.
Faster than traditional alternatives - 2 to 4 days v/s 4 to 6 weeks traditionally. >70% cost savings enabling teams to do research at 3x scale. Everything else is a tool you still have to operate. SquareUp is a team that owns the result. Instead of paying for a website plus plugins plus an agency plus hires, you get one AI team for less than a single salary. It builds the store, does the selling, and gets sharper with every order (self-learns), so the store keeps converting better while you sleep. Not 10% cheaper software. A whole team's worth of work, running 24/7, for a fraction of one hire.
04Timing

Why now

Every brand, big or small, should run on a full team of experts that grows its revenue. Today only the largest companies can afford that. SquareUp makes it the default for everyone else. Over time we become the operating team behind millions of stores across the globe: the layer that quietly builds, sells, and grows commerce for anyone with something to sell.

05People

The builders

Param Jain
CEO

Param Jain

Backed by Entrepreneurs First. Tech-lead at EA Sports (5YOE on titles like NFS, PvZ, Bejeweled Series, Simcity, etc). Ran a venture studio serving clients in Europe & Australia. Served as Head of Technology at an Early-stage SharkTank startup.

Abhinav Vashisht
CTO

Abhinav Vashisht

Ex-AWS engineer who helped build and scale India’s 10-minute delivery infrastructure and AI systems serving millions of customer interactions. Brings a track record of turning complex technical challenges into reliable, high-scale products used by millions of consumers.