What
Mobile-payments technology provider reinventing the cash register, and transactions leader in the mobile-wallet war.
Disrupting
The way consumers buy, merging e-commerce with financial services infrastructure to disrupt the transaction revenue and retail market.
Headquarters: San Francisco
CEO: Jack Dorsey
Year Founded: 2009
Number of Employees: 500+
Funding: $341 million
Key Investors: Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, VISA, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Tiger Technology Global Management, Citi Ventures, Rizvi Traverse Management, Richard Branson, Starbucks and JPMorgan Chase
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