====== Square ======

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**Square** is a financial services platform operated by [[Block, Inc.]]

===== History =====

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))

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))

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))

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))

===== Organization =====

==== Funding ====

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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  * [[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>

===== External links =====

  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block,_Inc.|Wikipedia]]