Who owns Cash App?
Cash App is owned by Block (the United States, NYSE: XYZ).[1]
Evidence: Block, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26, SEC EDGAR, 26 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Block, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Oakland, California
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 2013
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Payments
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: XYZ
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Cash App
Cash App sends money between people and also sells shares and bitcoin, and it is the main American rival to Venmo. It is unusually strong among people without traditional bank accounts, which has made it a target of scam warnings from consumer regulators.
What Block's annual report says about Cash App
Sentences about Cash App from Block's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Cash App Ecosystem Cash App provides an ecosystem of financial products and services to help consumers manage their money.
Cash App's mission is to redefine the world's relationship with money by making it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.
While Cash App started with the single ability to send and receive money, it now provides an ecosystem of commerce solutions, financial services, and Bitcoin capabilities focused on helping consumers make their money go further by enabling customers to store, send, receive, spend, invest, buy now, pay later ("BNPL"), borrow, or save their money with Cash App.
How often Block names Cash App in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Cash App
Where Cash App sits in Block
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Block
Block controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Other brands in payments, and who owns them
The 36 brands in payments on Brandtree belong to 19 owners. The largest is PayPal, with 4; Block has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| GoPay | GoTo | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Kaspi Alaqan | Kaspi.kz | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan |
| Braintree | PayPal | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Rakuten Card | Rakuten | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| AzamPay | Bakhresa | 🇹🇿 Tanzania |
| GrabPay | Grab | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
| Mercado Crédito | MercadoLibre | 🇺🇾 Uruguay |
| Uzum Bank | Uzum | 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan |
About the owner: Block
Block is a publicly listed company headquartered in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 2009. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: XYZ.
Block was called Square until 2021 and was founded by Jack Dorsey, who was simultaneously running Twitter. It started by making a card reader that plugged into a phone headphone socket, which let market stalls and small traders take cards for the first time.
🇺🇸 Cash App and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Cash App is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Cash App?
The parent company of Cash App is Block, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Cash App American?
Yes. Cash App originated in the United States in 2013 and its owner, Block, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Cash App still owned by Block?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Cash App is still owned by Block. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Block, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 26 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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