Acquired by Twitter in 2020. Hang out with friends over video chat Together you can watch videos or screen share any app
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $5M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 9
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 06.08.2019 | Seed | $5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.02.2021 | Fund for Female Founders Closes $21 Million Round | Halogen Ventures, the Los Angeles venture firm focused on increasing the woefully underrepresented number of female founders who lead consumer tech startups, has closed a second $21 million fund. "With this fund, we will continue to pr... |
| 11.12.2020 | Twitter купила приложение Squad для демонстрации экрана во время видеозвонка Статьи редакции | Команда проекта присоединится к Twitter, а приложение перестанет работать 12 декабря. Twitter объявила о покупке стартапа Squad, который развивает одноименное приложение для демонстрации экрана во время видеозвонка, передаёт TechCrunch со с... |
| 11.12.2020 | Twitter Buys Squad, App That Enables Hanging Out Virtually | Twitter has acquired the startup responsible for Squad, the app designed to help people hang out virtually. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, social media and platforms that help individuals stay connected have experienced explosive... |
| 11.12.2020 | Twitter acquires screen-sharing social app Squad | Today, Twitter announced that it is acquiring Squad and that the team from the screen-sharing social app will be joining Twitter’s ranks. Squad’s co-founders, CEO Esther Crawford and CTO Ethan Sutin, and the rest of the team will be coming ... |
| 02.05.2020 | This Week in Apps: Zoom gets busted, TikTok’s new record, contact tracing API launches | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $1... |
| 29.04.2020 | Squad hits desktop as the social screen-sharing app aims to become Gen-Z Zoom | Zoom is an enterprise software company built to help employees meet virtually; it was never intended to be the social platform that guided a disconnected world through a lockdown. On the back of a big quarantine usage bump, Squad, a social ... |
| 06.08.2019 | Squad Raises $5M In Seed Funding | Squad, a San Francisco, CA-based social screen sharing and group video chat app, raised $5m in seed funding. The round was led by First Round Capital with participation from Betaworks, Y Combinator, Alpha Bridge Ventures, Day One Ventures, ... |
| 06.08.2019 | Squad, the ‘anti-bro startup,’ is creating a safe space for teenage girls online | When we go online to communicate, hang out or play, we’re typically logging on to platforms conceived of and built by men. Mark Zuckerberg famously created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room. Evan Spiegel and his frat brother Bobby Murphy de... |
| 17.01.2019 | Squad is the new screensharing chat app everyone will copy | Squad could be the next teen sensation because it makes it easy to do nothing… together. Spending time with friends in the modern age often means just being on your phones next to each other, occasionally showing off something funny you fou... |