Heidelberger Beteiligungsholding AG to Acquire €50 Million in SQD Tokens by 2025

Heidelberger Beteiligungsholding AG, a German investment firm listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, has begun acquiring SQD tokens as part of a strategic shift towards embracing artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. The firm plans to rename itself SQD.AI Strategies AG, reflecting its commitment to supporting and growing the SQD ecosystem. This move is part of a broader long-term investment strategy that includes raising up to €50 million for the fiscal year 2025 to acquire, hold, and stake SQD tokens.

The acquisition of SQD tokens involves a combination of over-the-counter deals and market purchases, demonstrating the firm's dedication to this new direction. Chairman Clemens Jakopitsch, who initially invested in SQD on behalf of the Piëch Family Office, highlighted the powerful crypto tailwinds and the convergence of data and AI as key drivers behind this decision. He noted that the broader crypto market is gaining institutional momentum, with significant regulatory developments expected in the U.S. Senate in July. This regulatory support, coupled with the technological shift towards AI and data integration, positions SQD at the heart of these trends.

Marcel Fohrmann, Co-Founder of SQD.AI, emphasized that this move marks a pivotal moment for SQD. The commitment from SQD.AI Strategies AG underscores the growing recognition of the importance of real-time, intelligent data infrastructure in achieving competitive advantage. As AI systems become more autonomous and tokenized economies scale, the demand for high-performance, onchain-native data is accelerating, and SQD is built to meet this demand.

The renaming to SQD.AI Strategies AG highlights the company’s focus on becoming the leading listed vehicle for exposure to SQD, which forms a foundational layer in the tokenized, AI-powered future of data infrastructure. Operating as a decentralized data-lakehouse, SQD transforms raw onchain events into institutional-grade datasets streamed via ultra-low-latency APIs. Backed by a global community of developers and data providers, SQD aims to create a permissionless alternative to traditional data infrastructure providers, optimized for AI agents and tokenized assets.

Heidelberger Beteiligungsholding AG, soon to be SQD.AI Strategies AG, is Germany’s first dedicated crypto treasury company. As a listed investment vehicle, it focuses exclusively on the long-term accumulation, holding, and staking of SQD tokens—the native asset of the Subsquid network. With a conviction-led strategy rooted in the convergence of AI and blockchain, the company aims to provide shareholders with direct exposure to one of the most promising data infrastructure plays in Web3.

SQD Network is a hyper-scalable modular data platform that combines a decentralized data lake with a highly efficient query engine. This platform unlocks new functionality for decentralized applications (dApps), AI agents, analytics, and zero-knowledge proofs/Trusted Execution Environments (ZK Proofs/TEE) by providing blazing-fast blockchain indexing. By replacing reliance on Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) for querying chains, SQD facilitates the retrieval of onchain data at scale, powering seamless user and builder experiences.