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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

Oakland, United StatesFounded 2009Fintech
Valuation $46B Market cap · 2026
Revenue $26B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $4.55B Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2009
Headquarters
Oakland, United States
Listing
IPO 2015
Sector
Fintech
Power Law
Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
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Investors

38 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A21 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later17 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 11,974 incl. 192 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 119 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 10 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 10 startups shown

Former Block employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

BlueskyEst. 2021
Jack DorseyUnited States
Signal score95
Ceramic aiEst. 2024
Anna PattersonUnited States
Signal score90
Stable SeaEst. 2024
BBBen BoeserUnited States
Signal score81
InvisiblyEst. 2017
Jim MckelveyUnited States
Signal score78
DealcarEst. 2023
Carlos Horno SantacruzSpain
Signal score77
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
35 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States78.6%
🇦🇺 Australia10%
🇨🇦 Canada4.8%
🇮🇪 Ireland1.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom1.2%
Top 5 of 35 shown
Web traffic by country
540K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States51.2%
🇨🇦 Canada5.9%
🇮🇳 India5.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.6%
🇦🇺 Australia2.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$305M

698 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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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.

Portfolio analysis

50 deals across Block's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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      By periodCount

        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.

        Compare against

        Block's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        50 of 50 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        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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