Company: Squirro
Founder: Dorian Selz
Website: https://squirro.com/
About Squirro
Squirro was founded in 2012 with the vision of helping businesses move beyond data overload and harness the full potential of AI. While enterprises had invested heavily in digital systems, they struggled to connect fragmented data, understand its context, and apply it to decision-making. Our founding team set out to solve this by creating a SaaS platform that combines generative AI, knowledge graphs, and semantic search to deliver meaningful insights directly into business workflows.
From our headquarters in Switzerland, we have grown into a global company with offices in London, New York, Munich and Singapore. Building trust in AI adoption was one of our early challenges, especially in industries like financial services and government where data privacy, governance, and explainability are paramount. We overcame this by designing solutions that are enterprise-ready, secure, and seamlessly integrated into existing systems.
Today, Squirro is trusted by leading organisations worldwide, including the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, and Henkel. Our technology helps them unlock insights for risk management, customer engagement, asset management, and operational optimisation, all powered by context-aware generative AI.
Our contribution to the SaaS industry lies in bringing practical, enterprise-grade AI applications to market well ahead of the hype cycles. We have shown that generative AI can be used as a tool for augmenting human intelligence. Our Insight Engine, recognised by Gartner, is a proven example of how AI can be responsibly embedded into daily decision-making. By connecting structured and unstructured data, applying knowledge graph technology, and generating context-specific answers, we provide clarity in complex environments where decisions matter most.
Innovation has always been central to our growth. We continue to invest heavily in R&D, advancing natural language processing, retrieval-augmented generation, and domain-specific AI models tailored to industries like banking, life sciences, and manufacturing. Importantly, we have been pioneers in Responsible AI, ensuring our clients benefit from transparency, fairness, and governance alongside performance.
Looking ahead, Squirro is scaling its global partnerships with system integrators and expanding its client base across the UK and Europe. Our mission is to democratise access to enterprise-grade AI by making it intuitive, secure, and impactful for every organisation.
What makes Squirro tick is our belief that AI should empower, not replace. By contextualising information and delivering insights where they are needed most, we enable people to make smarter decisions, serve customers better, and seize opportunities for growth in an increasingly complex world.
