Company
Every published round Square took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.
Companies Square has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.
| Company | What it does | First invested | Rounds | Led |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio companies recorded yet. | ||||
Fund closes reported for Square, as distinct from the investments it has made.
Companies Square has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Square did.
| Company | Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No portfolio company of Square is recorded as having been acquired. | ||||
Companies Square acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Company | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afterpay | Acquisition | 2021 | $39b | SmartCompany, Australian FinTech |
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Alyssa Henry | Head | Australian FinTech |
| Ben Pfisterer | APAC Executive (former) | Forbes Australia (24 Jun 2026), Fintech News Australia, Startup Daily (3 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (3 Oct 2025), Forbes Australia (6 Sep 2024), Startup Daily (2 Feb 2023), SmartCompany (31 Jan 2023), SmartCompany (22 Nov 2022), Forbes Australia (25 Oct 2022), Square Peg Capital, Startup Daily (3 Mar 2022) |
| Dee Kulkarni | Technology Director (former) | SmartCompany (13 Mar 2026), SmartCompany (29 Sep 2022), Women's Agenda |
| Dominic Yap | APAC Executive (former) | Fintech News Australia, SmartCompany (3 Oct 2025), SmartCompany (31 Jan 2023), SmartCompany (22 Nov 2022), Square Peg Capital |
| Jack Dorsey | Founder | Forbes Australia |
| Nick Molnar | Afterpay Lead (former) | Australian FinTech |
Stories naming Square. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Zeller has rolled out a point-of-sale application for small Australian businesses, replacing subscription pricing with per-transaction charges and adding an AI assistant inside its merchant dashboard.
Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang recounts turning down Stripe's billion-dollar buyout, describes building a licensed global payments network, and argues the Melbourne fintech can now challenge Stripe directly.
TechCrunch profiles Airwallex's new point-of-sale offering letting businesses take payments in person across countries, pitting the Australian firm against Stripe, Square and Adyen, and recalls its rejection of Stripe's 2019 buyout bid.
Brisbane food-safety software firm Squizify has opened a Japanese subsidiary and revealed a $10 million Series A that Coreline Ventures led months earlier; clients include 7-Eleven Australia and it has partnered with Square.
Also Startup Daily
Melbourne payments provider Zeller is launching in Britain, its first overseas market, appointing ex-ByteDance executive Lars Weber to head new London operations and building a 40-strong local team.
First Australians Capital has reached a $20 million first close on its Catalytic Impact Funds, drawing commitments from foundations, family offices and corporates, plus Queensland government funding for its Indigenous business program.
Scalare Partners announces its investment in Brauz, an omnichannel retail platform, and that chief executive Carolyn Breeze will take a non-executive board seat at Brauz.
Business-to-business buy-now-pay-later fintech BizPay has entered voluntary administration, appointing BRI Ferrier's Jonathon Keenan and Peter Krejci; about 15 staff affected, with a sale or restructure now being explored.
Also Startup Daily
Jessica Box reflects on leadership lessons from her years in senior product roles during Linktree's rapid growth, covering culture, organisational systems and market moats, before leaving to found her own startup.
Fintech Zeller launches standalone transaction accounts and debit cards for small businesses, distributing physical cards through Officeworks stores nationwide as it challenges the big banks.
Payments company Zeller says larger merchants now drive its growth as it moves upmarket, and the piece recalls its 2021 and 2022 venture raises that produced a $1.1 billion valuation.
Profile of Zeller's co-founder Ben Pfisterer covering the payments firm's Melbourne base, unicorn valuation, early backers, product range and growth since launching in 2021.
Weekly tech wrap: cloud-market trends, Tiger Global's cheques into Stake, Shippit and Carma, new VC funds, several acquisitions, grocery delivery startups Send and Quicko collapsing, and Elaine Stead joining M8 Ventures.
Also Startup Daily
Roundup of recent backing in Australia's back-end payments sector, covering DataMesh's raise with NAB Ventures, Airwallex's funding, and recalling Square's Afterpay takeover and Novatti's ATX acquisition.
Also SmartCompany
AfterWork Ventures reflects on backing Stropro in February 2020, explaining why the platform opening structured bank products to sophisticated investors fits its unbundling-of-banks thesis and Asia-Pacific ambitions.
Square Peg announces it led Zeller's AU$6.3 million seed round with Apex Capital co-investing, profiling co-founders Ben Pfisterer and Dominic Yap and their merchant payments and business banking offering ahead of launch.
One-click checkout startup Fast, founded by Dominic Holland and Allison Barr Allen, is shutting down a year after a $131 million Series B backed by Stripe and Addition, amid weak revenue and fading investor appetite.
Also Startup Daily
Block has completed its purchase of Afterpay, and Square is rolling out Afterpay's buy-now-pay-later option to its online sellers in the US and Australia, with a free trial until May 2022.
Also Australian FinTech
OIF Ventures' third monthly portfolio roundup: XM Cyber's roughly billion-dollar sale to Schwarz Group, Assignar's secondary raise, new investments in Inspace, mod.io and Atelier, plus portfolio awards, customers and product launches.