Jim McKelvey
McKelvey is the co-founder of Square, a new mobile payment platform. His co-founder is Jack Dorsey, best known as the creator of Twitter.
Arch Grants Raises $2.5M To Turn St. Louis Into A Startup Hub; Square Co-founder Signs On
It’s also officially announcing today that Square Co-founder Jim McKelvey (who along with co-founder Jack Dorsey is a St. Louis native) will head the organization’s advisory board. This means that, among other things, McKelvey will help lead strategy for the business plan ... Read more »
Super Bowl ads: Mobile innovators download in Best Buy Web video series (video)
Best Buy’s chosen innovators include text-to-speech inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, Instagram founder Kevin Systrom, camera phone creator Philippe Kahn, mobile payment system inventor and founder of Square Jim McKelvey, video sharing creator Daniel Henderson, Shazam co-founders Chris ... Read more »
Square Co-Founder Jim McKelvey Backs The LinkedIn For Athletes LockerDome
Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square invested in the startup and is joining LockerDome’s Board of Directors. LockerDome is a social networking site for sports and aims to help athletes create a sports persona and profile. LockerDome works with youth sports programs across the U.S. to ... Read more »
Co-Founder of Square Jim McKelvey Joins LockerDome’s Board of Directors and Invests
Red-hot Jim McKelvey further positions upstart LockerDome for strong growth in 2012. LockerDome, a social sports community, announced today that Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square, a billion-dollar mobile payments device company, has become one of its investors and is joining ... Read more »
Square Co-Founder Jim McKelvey’s Electric Ride
Four years ago Jim McKelvey put his dreams of starting an electric car company on hold, when he and Jack Dorsey decided to start mobile payment company, Square. But two years into their partnership, McKelvey discovered Emerald, an English company building the world’s first ... Read more »
Best Buy Super Bowl Ad Swaps Celebs for Tech Innovators Instagram and Square
Such innovators include Philippe Kahn, creator of the camera phone; Kevin Systrom, founder of Instagram; and Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square. The rep declined to provide further details about the ad, though a video might be available soon. Kahn is credited with developing the first ... Read more »
Founders of Kaldi's, Square to Speak at UMSL
Howard Lerner, co-founder of Kaldi’s Coffee and Jim McKelvey, co-founder of the mobile payment company Square Inc., will be the featured speakers during Research and Innovation Week April 22-26 at University of Missouri–St. Louis. The week, which is hosted by the Office of Research ... Read more »
7 Questions with Jim McKelvey of Square Inc.
7 Questions with Jim McKelvey of Square Inc. St. Louis Business Journal by Amir Kurtovic, Reporter The event, which begins at 7:30 a.m., is presented by J.P. Morgan and will feature a panel discussion with McKelvey; Benjamin Akande, the dean of Webster University’s Webster University ... Read more »
Best Buy Uses the Big Game Stage to Focus on Mobile Technology
"Showcasing innovators like Philippe Kahn, who created the camera phone, and Jim McKelvey, who introduced the notion of mobile payments, first in our ad and then in longer-form media made sense. It allows these inventors to move from tonight`s spot to a format where they can share more ... Read more »
DOCUMENTED: The Unusual Structure That Lets Square CEO Jack Dorsey Cash Out His Shares
Square CEO Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey, his cofounder in the online-payments startup, negotiated a great deal for themselves when they started the company. According to documents reviewed by Business Insider, the founders have a right to sell shares alongside the company in any equity ... Read more »
Most Audacious Companies: Square
As the oft-told story goes, the idea for Square came about after Jim McKelvey, Dorsey's friend and former boss, who is a computer engineer and skilled glass blower, missed out on a $2,000 sale of one of his glass faucets. McKelvey, like millions of small-business owners in the ... Read more »
St. Louis native Jack Dorsey joins billionaire club
Louis native Jim McKelvey in 2009, allows merchants to accept mobile credit card payments through a white plastic card reader that can be plugged into the earphone jack of a smart phone or tablet computer. “PrivCo has always felt that Square was a company being ‘built to be bought’, and ... Read more »
LockerDome nets $6 million from Square's McKelvey, Cardinals ownership group and others
The round was led by the Cultivation Capital Growth Fund, a newly formed venture fund spearheaded by Square co-founder Jim McKelvey, who sits on the board of LockerDome and was an investors in previous rounds. The Series A round included strategic investments from a number of big names ... Read more »
7 Question with Gabe Lozano, CEO of LockerDome
He also has the backing of people like Jim McKelvey, the co-founder of Square Inc., and Brian and Carol Matthews, the husband-and-wife duo who co-founded Primary Networks and CDM Fantasy Sports. McKelvey and Brian Matthews are general partners at Cultivation Capital, a new venture ... Read more »
Arch Grants Awards First $750,000 in Grants
Louis Arch Grants ( http://archgrants.org ), the global business plan competition providing $50,000 grants to startups and taking no equity in return, today with Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and Square co-founder and head of the Arch Grants Advisory Board Jim McKelvey, announced the ... Read more »
St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff
Invest Midwest ended with a presentation by Jim McKelvey, cofounder of the mobile-payment company Square and a local St. Louis tech investor. He said that more than a million merchants are using the Square payment process, and now there are numerous competitors in the mobile credit-card ... Read more »
The New “Handmade”
It was where Square co-founder Jim McKelvey once built the first three protoypes for the Square card reader, and where a datacenter technology startup called Clustered Systems designed a prototype of a fanless liquid-cooling system which outperformed IBM in a “chill-off” contest. But ... Read more »
10 Midwest Startup Companies Attend Think Big Showcase in Silicon Valley
LockerDome : Backed by Square co-founder, Jim McKelvey, LockerDome is one of the hottest sports startups in the country. LockerDome aims to be a person’s sports identity. The bet we've made is that people have 3 big personas in their life: social, professional, and recreational. Facebook ... Read more »
Best Buy lines up smartphone deal for Super Bowl
They include Philippe Kahn, who is credited with being the first to create a camera phone that could share photos on a public network; Jim McKelvey, co-founder of the mobile-payments company Square; and Kevin Systrom, founder of hit photo app Instagram. "We're drawing off their ... Read more »
How to Land a Job at Square
The company was started by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey in 2009, and launched publicly the next year. Since then, Square has raised more than $300 million funding and is reportedly valued at $3.25 billion. Square now processes more than $10 billion in payments ... Read more »
