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Squid

Fintech · Zug, Switzerland · Founded 2021

Squid is a cross-chain liquidity layer powered by Axelar MoreLess

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).

Keywords: cross-chain, liquidity, token swaps, messaging, Axelar, DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, gaming, scalability.

Talent graph

Squid's talent

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Team profiled 4 named & role-tagged
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 1 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

30 investors on Squid's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding and investor records. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 22 investors entered at this stage
North Island Ventures
Derek Yoo
Stani Kulechov
Axelar
Dean Eigenmann
Althabasca capital
Brianna Montgomery
Ashleigh Schap
Distributed Global
Node Capital
Waikit Lau
Fabric Ventures
Zaki Manian
Chapter One Ventures
Galileo
Ripple
Peanut
Arche Capital
Scenius Capital
Altos Ventures
Borderless Capital
Dialectic
Series A 8 investors entered at this stage
Polychain Capital
Nomad Capital
Maelstrom
Binary Builders
Chorus One
The Department of XYZ
Typhon Ventures
Breed VC

Global footprint

Where Squid has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
6 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States37.5%
🇵🇱 Poland12.5%
🇦🇺 Australia12.5%
🇵🇹 Portugal12.5%
🇦🇷 Argentina12.5%
Top 5 of 6 shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Squid

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Squid on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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