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Block
Born out of Square, Block is a diversified financial technology provider which includes its flagship product Square as well as Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD
At a glance
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- Oakland, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2015
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Block.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A21 investors entered at this stage
- SFShawn Fanning
- JCJerry Crumley
Fritz Lanman
Khosla Ventures- KVKBW Ventures
Ron Conway- BPBrian Pokorny
First Round Capital- KRKevin Rose
- ZBZachary Bogue
- RCRobin Chan
Joshua Schachter- DCDennis Crowley
Xavier Niel- JPJim Pitkow
- ARAndrew Rasiej
Acequia Capital
SV Angel- GYGreg Yaitanes
- BSBiz Stone
- MMMarissa Mayer
Series B and later17 investors entered at this stage
JP Morgan- CVCiti Ventures
Goldman Sachs- RBRichard Branson
Sapphire Ventures- SVSozo Ventures
GIC- STStarbucks
- AVAccess Technology Ventures
Sequoia
Kleiner Perkins
Tiger Global
Cota Capital- RMRizvi Traverse Management
Notable Capital- VIVisa
Tuesday Capital
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Block employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
BLBlueskyEst. 2021
Jack DorseyUnited States
Anna PattersonUnited States
INInvisiblyEst. 2017
Jim MckelveyUnited States
Carlos Horno SantacruzSpainGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
698 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Block was the backer or acquirer, 2011–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
50 deals across Block's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Block deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Block's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Block on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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