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Squid
Squid is a cross-chain liquidity layer powered by Axelar
About Squid
Squid operates as a cross-chain liquidity layer powered by Axelar, enabling seamless native token swaps and messaging across different blockchain networks. The company serves developers and businesses in the decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), regenerative finance (ReFi), decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and gaming sectors. Squid's core offering includes smart contracts, APIs, and SDKs that facilitate the integration of cross-chain financial logic with minimal code. The business model revolves around providing a scalable and secure infrastructure for cross-chain transactions, leveraging Axelar's Hub-Spoke model for optimal performance. Squid generates revenue through service fees associated with its liquidity and messaging solutions. The market it operates in is the rapidly growing blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem, where interoperability and liquidity are critical for the development of decentralized applications (dApps).
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- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- Zug, Switzerland
- Sector
- Fintech
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed22 investors entered at this stage
North Island Ventures- DYDerek Yoo
Stani Kulechov
Axelar- DEDean Eigenmann
Althabasca capital
Brianna Montgomery- ASAshleigh Schap
Distributed Global
Node Capital
Waikit Lau
Fabric Ventures
Zaki Manian
Chapter One Ventures
Galileo
Ripple
Peanut- ACArche Capital
Scenius Capital
Altos Ventures
Borderless Capital
Dialectic
Series A8 investors entered at this stage
Polychain Capital
Nomad Capital
Maelstrom
Binary Builders
Chorus One
The Department of XYZ- TVTyphon Ventures
Breed VC
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