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 +**Square** is a financial services platform operated by [[Block, Inc.]]
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 +===== History =====
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 +In 2009, [[Jack Dorsey]] and [[Jim McKelvey]] began developing the Square payment service. The pair demonstrated the tech to investors at the 2009 [[Allen & Company]] conference, earning themselves an investment from [[Khosla Ventures]].((Robischon, N. (2010, May 11). //Square Brings Credit Card Swiping to the Mobile Masses, Starting Today.// Fast Company. http://archive.today/2013.10.21-075818/http://www.fastcompany.com/1643271/square-brings-credit-card-swiping-mobile-masses-starting-today))
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 +Square headhunted [[Bob Lee]], a lead developer for [[Google]]'s [[Android]] platform, in January 2010. Lee joined the team as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).((Hurley, B. (2023, April 5). //Everything we know about the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee.// The Independent. http://archive.today/2023.04.05-191522/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/cash-app-founder-bob-lee-stabbed-san-francisco-b2314740.html))
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 +The company launched the first version of the service in May 2010.((Robischon, N. (2010, May 11). //Square Brings Credit Card Swiping to the Mobile Masses, Starting Today.// Fast Company. http://archive.today/2013.10.21-075818/http://www.fastcompany.com/1643271/square-brings-credit-card-swiping-mobile-masses-starting-today))
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 +Square secured a debt financing agreement in April 2014 with [[Barclays]], [[Goldman Sachs]], [[JPMorgan Chase]], [[Morgan Stanley]], and [[Silicon Valley Bank]] (SVB).((//Debt Financing - Square.// Crunchbase. Retrieved April 5, 2023, from https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/square-debt-financing--e458eddf))
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 +===== Organization =====
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 +==== Funding ====
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 +Investors in Square include:((//Square - Funding, Financials, Valuation & Investors.// Crunchbase. Retrieved April 5, 2023, from https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/square/company_financials))
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 +<WRAP column col4>
 +  * [[Access Technology Ventures]]
 +  * [[Acequia Capital]]
 +  * [[Barclays]]
 +  * [[Citi Ventures]]
 +  * [[GGV Capital]]
 +  * [[GIC]]
 +  * [[Goldman Sachs]]
 +  * [[JPMorgan Chase]]
 +  * [[Khosla Ventures]]
 +  * [[Kleiner Perkins]]
 +  * [[Morgan Stanley]]
 +  * [[Omega Venture Partners]]
 +  * [[Rizvi Traverse]]
 +  * [[Sapphire Ventures]]
 +  * [[Sequoia Capital]]
 +  * [[Silicon Valley Bank]] (SVB)
 +  * [[Sozo Ventures]]
 +  * [[Starbucks]]
 +  * [[SV Angel]]((//SV Angel.// FinTech Global. Retrieved April 5, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230405234635/https://fintech.global/investors/sv-angel/))
 +  * [[Tiger Global Management]]
 +  * [[Tuesday Capital]]
 +  * [[Virgin Group]]
 +  * [[Visa]]
 +  * [[VMware]]
 +</WRAP>
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 +===== External links =====
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 +  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block,_Inc.|Wikipedia]]
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