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Squads
Squads is a community focused on assembling high-performance teams that specialize in building and marketing products for startups and scaleups.
Overview
What Squads does
What Squads is
Squads is a community focused on assembling high-performance teams that specialize in building and marketing products for startups and scaleups.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports community capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2015
- Approximate age
- About 11 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- March 31, 2026
Official channels
Find Squads elsewhere
Open the official website or a supported primary organization account.
Capability profile
Squads as a community
Community overview
Squads is a full-stack development community based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The organization focuses on providing access to a network of development talent, enabling startups and enterprises to build and scale their products efficiently.
Community focus
Squads invests in technology startups and community projects, particularly those that drive digital transformation and sustainable practices. Their investment strategy emphasizes supporting regenerative business models that provide social and environmental value.
Member value
Members gain access to a network of development talent, resources for building MVPs, and opportunities for community-driven investments.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Investors · Operators
- Benefits
- network-access and mentorship
- Program types
- community and other
- Selection criteria
- open
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Regions
- EuropeThe Netherlands
Community activity
Notable members
Key team members include Kai Bennink, Marcel Matthijs, Maksym Dryhval, Ben Goldin, and Iwein Fuld.
Common questions
What to know about Squads
Upseed classifies Squads under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
March 31, 2026
Known limits
Capability profiles appear only when a structured public profile also contains decision-useful role evidence. Terms and availability can change.
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