Squirro is your personal digital research assistant

He delivers the info you want, when you need it. Squirro is an expert in content curation: Just give him a few keywords and he’ll filter out the noise to deliver just what you’re looking for – news, documents and even people. 

• Any topic, from the general to the obscure.
• Any purpose, work or play.

Squirro is broader than feeds and more specific than search 

Squirro is gathering content from a wide variety of sources and delivering it in simple and elegant digest that’s updated continuously and automatically. And the more you use Squirro, the smarter he gets, able to sense what you’ll want next.  The result is a living collection of information that matches your interests exactly.

Squirro is resourceful in lots of different ways

He brings together all of the different tools you use to gather and consume content so you can easily harvest it – and isn’t that the real point? With Squirro you can follow topics, clip and collect articles, take notes and make comments in your own personal or shared workspace.

Squirro can be all business

Squirro is perfect for discovering trends, tracking competitors and monitoring customers. He can even integrate with company applications, so you can connect your prospects’ data in a continuous stream of their relevant news (Available for Salesforce.com, SAP, Highrise and soon other CRM systems, too).

Think how Squirro can work for you:

• Research any topic 
• Collect information on prospects
• Track competitors 
• Monitor customer satisfaction 
• And share it all with team mates

Squirro is social, too

You can connect with other members to follow their interests and share yours.

Squirro is mobile 

He runs online, from desktop to iPad to Android to make sure you have the same info available, wherever you are.

With Squirro, you can learn more, connect better and work smarter

Squirro reduces the noise of finding the information you want, so you can really harvest the content that matters. Put him to work!

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Dr. Dorian Selz is a co-founder of Squirro. Before that he co-founded the Swiss search platform local.ch and was its CEO until December 2008. He is a partner at namics ag and has a PHD from the University of St. Gallen.

Felix Hürlimann is a co-founder of Squirro. He came to Squirro from local.ch where he was engineering director. He has a degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and is specialized in information retrieval. 

Patrice Neff is a co-founder of Squirro. Before Squirro he led the frontend team of local.ch. He did an apprenticeship at Namics and founded Arroba. 

Christoph Hauzenberger is a co-founder of Squirro. Before Squirro he led the search and advertising effort of local.ch. He has a master's degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and worked previously for Unic, a web consultancy.

Toni Birrer is a co-founder of Squirro. Before Squirro he was running the infrastructure behind local.ch, and before that he was working at Obtree Technologies Inc, one of the leading WCMS providers back in the old days. 

Alex von Siebenthal is the Social Marketing Community Manager at Squirro. Before joining the team at Squirro, Alex worked / interned at prominent Swiss companies such as Swiss Re in similar roles. He is currently studying at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. 

Patrick Stählin is a Software Engineer at Squirro and takes care of back-end technologies. He spent the last three and a half years working at futureLAB AG and has an engineering degree from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. 

Roberto Lupi is a software engineer at Squirro who specializes in data mining and web technologies. He has years of experience as a software developer in different markets from healthcare to banking, from startups to big multinational companies.

Alexander Sennhauser is a Software Engineer at Squirro. He passionately built systems that solve real world problems at Open Systems in Switzerland andAster Data Systems in Silicon Valley. He has a Master degree from EPFL in Lausanne.

Business Angel of the Year 2010 in Germany, Friedrich Georg Hoepfner has been involved in countless European startups. He previously run Hoepfner Bräu, a large brewery based in Karlsruhe. He also serves as board member of Squirro.

Alex Ott is Founder of CrossContinentalVentures and has operational and board level experience on four continents. He has been partnering with many entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Israel in building thought leading technology enterprises that seek to make a difference. He has held executive management positions at Siebel Systems and SAP and was an early investor in QlikTech (NASDAQ “QLIK”). Alex serves as board member of Squirro.

Andy has a passion for building and guiding startups and small companies into high speed growth and market leadership positions. Andy has held senior sales and executive leadership positions in IBM, Siebel and small/medium startups. Most recently he was a managing director and vice president of QlikTech (NASDAQ: QLIK). Andy is now a investor in, and advisor to, the hi-tech sector. He holds a honours degree in Business Information Systems.

Måns Hultman is the founder of Tassaka, which he uses as a management company for his investments. He was CEO of QlikTech International AB, later Qlik Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ "QLIK"), between 2000 and late 2007. He continued as Qlik's Chairman of the Board until late 2009. He is now helping other technology companies achieve similar success as QlikTech did, through the design of power offers, great execution teams and sustainable market momentum.

Raúl Véjar is a seasoned executive in the enterprise software industry, with broad experience in strategic, operational and managerial topics. Until May 2010, he served as the EVP and COO of the Business Objects division of SAP. Previously, Véjar served as EVP of Corporate Strategy at SAP.

Paul Wahl is a proven visionary and strategic leader who translates market opportunities and business strategies into high performing organizations. He was CEO of SAP Americas and later COO and President of Siebel Systems. Today he is executive in residence with Accel Partners in London.

The Hasler Foundation promotes information and communications technology (ICT) for the well-being and benefit of Switzerland as an intellectual and industrial center. The Foundation provides its support by financing or co-financing selected educational, research and innovation projects and undertakings in the field of ICT.

The W.A. de Vigier Foundation sponsors innovative and future-looking business ideas with a development award of CHF 100,000 per idea. Nektoon AG (The legal entity behind Squirro) won the prize in 2010 considered the Rolls Royce of Swiss Startup Prizes. 

Zürcher Kantonalbank is the leading universal bank in the Zurich region, focusing on the national market. The Bank invests through its bank-owned Venture-Fund PIONIER every year risk capital in about 20 start-up companies in the Zurich economic area