Heidelberger Beteiligungsholding AG to Raise €50 Million for SQD Token Investment

Heidelberger Beteiligungsholding AG, a publicly listed German company, has announced the establishment of an SQD token reserve. The company, which trades on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the ticker IPOK, is set to rename itself SQD.AI Strategies AG, underscoring its dedication to supporting SQD’s data network. This strategic move involves both over-the-counter (OTC) deals and market purchases, marking the beginning of a comprehensive long-term investment strategy.

The company plans to raise up to €50 million for the fiscal year 2025 to acquire, hold, and stake SQD tokens. This initiative is aimed at bolstering the SQD ecosystem and leveraging the growing institutional momentum in the broader crypto market. The company's chairman, Clemens Jakopitsch, who initially invested in SQD on behalf of the Piëch Family Office, highlighted the convergence of data and AI as a pivotal technological shift. He noted that SQD is uniquely positioned at the intersection of these trends, benefiting from both the regulatory tailwinds in the U.S. and the increasing demand for high-performance, onchain-native data.

Marcel Fohrmann, Co-Founder of SQD.AI, emphasized the significance of this commitment, stating that it reflects the growing recognition of real-time, intelligent data infrastructure as a core competitive advantage. As AI systems become more autonomous and tokenized economies scale, the demand for such data is accelerating, and SQD is designed to meet this demand.

The upcoming name change to SQD.AI Strategies AG further underscores the company’s focus on becoming the leading listed vehicle for exposure to SQD. SQD operates as a decentralized data-lakehouse, transforming raw onchain events into institutional-grade datasets streamed via ultra-low-latency APIs. Supported 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. The company’s strategy is rooted in the convergence of AI and blockchain, aiming 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.