Thndr vs Block
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Egypt's leading digital brokerage with 11% EGX retail market share, $4.2B 2024 trading volume, and 47% gold mutual fund AUM; $37.76M from Prosus and YC serving 82% of new EGX registrants.
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Thndr is Cairo-based Egypt's leading digital investment brokerage platform — enabling first-time investors across Egypt and the MENA region to access the Egyptian Stock Exchange (EGX), gold mutual funds, and other investment products through a mobile-first app that removes the minimum balance requirements and complexity of traditional brokerage. Backed by Y Combinator with $37.76 million raised including a $15.7 million Series A led by Prosus in May 2025, Thndr processed $4.2 billion in trading volume in 2024, captured 11% of retail traded value on the EGX, and holds 47% of Egypt's gold mutual fund AUM (assets under management).
San Francisco fintech (NYSE: SQ) added to S&P 500 July 2025; Cash App $5.0B gross profit, Square $3.7B, Afterpay BNPL integration, Jack Dorsey CEO competing with PayPal/Venmo and Stripe for merchant and consumer fintech.
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Block, Inc. is a San Francisco, California-based financial technology company — publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SQ) as an S&P 500 Information Technology component (added to the S&P 500 on July 23, 2025, replacing Hess Corporation) — operating two primary financial platforms: Square (merchant payment processing, point-of-sale hardware, and business banking for small-to-mid-size merchants) and Cash App (peer-to-peer payments, digital banking, stock investing, and Bitcoin transactions for individuals) alongside Afterpay (buy now pay later), Tidal (music streaming), and TBD (decentralized finance), through approximately 12,000 employees. CEO Jack Dorsey (co-founder with Jim McKelvey in 2009 as Square, rebranded to Block in December 2021) leads the company's strategy of building an interconnected ecosystem of financial services that connect individual consumers (Cash App) with merchants (Square) and the broader financial ecosystem. In fiscal year 2024, Block reported gross profit of approximately $8.9 billion, with Cash App generating approximately $5.0 billion in gross profit (+14% year-over-year) driven by Cash App Card, direct deposit adoption, and Cash App Pay, while Square generated approximately $3.7 billion in gross profit (+9%) driven by software and banking products alongside payment processing. Block acquired Afterpay for $29 billion in January 2022 — integrating the Australian buy-now-pay-later platform into both Square (merchant installment offer at checkout) and Cash App (consumer Afterpay integration).
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