2014 CNBC Disruptor 50

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

• Processing more than $12 billion in payments annually.
• Millions of individuals and businesses are able to accept credit cards via Square.
• Square card readers are available in more than 30,000 retail locations nationwide. 
• More than 300,00 merchants are in the Square directory.
• Square is accepted in more than 7,000 store-owned Starbucks nationwide.