Squad is a social screen sharing and group video chat app that lets users hang out with friends inside apps such as YouTube, Airbnb, Tinder, and shopping services. The platform emphasizes safety for its primarily female audience with blocking and reporting tools to prioritize security. Squad reports 450,000 registered users, about 70% of whom are teenage girls, and users have spent roughly 1 million hours in Squad calls this year. The product evolved from an earlier data‑sharing tool called Molly and the current Squad service launched in January. Leadership includes CEO Esther Crawford and CTO Ethan Sutin, and the company plans to use the new funding to expand its operations. The company says adoption has occurred without localization, drawing a global female audience in markets including India, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. Squad is a mobile app that enables up to six people to video chat and switch to live screensharing of their phones, letting friends browse apps and media together. The app leverages Apple’s ReplayKit and only launched its app last week. Founders Esther Crawford and Ethan Sutin pivoted their prior product Molly into Squad and have $2.2 million in funding from earlier investors to fuel the new direction. Squad plans to add shareable URLs so creators and fans can tune into screenshares and is developing a Squad SDK to embed screensharing inside other apps. The team is focused on minimizing lag and preserving video quality for users in rural areas, and is considering privacy measures like blocking downloads and warning about screenshots. Its stated mission is to create more intimate, low‑pressure social experiences to help people feel less lonely.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Aug 2019