List of mergers and acquisitions by Meta Platforms

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Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is a technology company that has acquired 91 other companies, including WhatsApp. The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $16 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform. Meta also purchased the defunct company ConnectU in a court settlement and acquired intellectual property formerly held by rival Friendster. The majority of the companies acquired by Meta are based in the United States, and in turn, a large percentage of these companies are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area. Meta has also made investments in LuckyCal and Wildfire Interactive.
Most of Meta's acquisitions have primarily been "talent acquisitions" and acquired products are often shut-down. In 2009, Meta (as Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a question on Quora, titled "What startups would be good acquisitions for Facebook?", receiving 79 answers.[1][2] He stated in 2010 that "We have not once bought a company for the company. We buy companies to get excellent people... In order to have a really entrepreneurial culture one of the key things is to make sure we're recruiting the best people. One of the ways to do this is to focus on acquiring great companies with great founders."[3] The Instagram acquisition, announced on April 9, 2012, appears to have been the first exception to this pattern.[4] While continuing with a pattern of primarily talent acquisitions, other notable product focused acquisitions include the $19 billion WhatsApp acquisition and the $2 billion Oculus VR acquisition.
Acquisitions
[edit]Number | Company | Location | Acquired on | Acquired for (USD) | Talent acquired | Related to | Used as / integrated with | References |
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1 | facebook.com domain name | ![]() |
August 23, 2005 |
200,000 | — | — | name change from Thefacebook.com | [5][6] |
2 | Parakey | ![]() |
July 19, 2007 |
— | Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt | Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital | Facebook Mobile | [7] |
3 | ConnectU | ![]() |
June 23, 2008 |
31,000,000 | — | i2Hub | (Court settlement) | [8][9] |
4 | FriendFeed | ![]() |
August 10, 2009 |
47,500,000 | Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh, 8 others | Benchmark Capital, ex-Google | — | [10] |
5 | Octazen | ![]() |
February 19, 2010 |
— | 2 engineers (remote workers) | — | Websluths | [11] |
6 | Divvyshot | ![]() |
March 2, 2010 |
— | Sam Odio, Paul Carduner | Y Combinator, AngelList | Facebook Photos | [12] |
7 | Friendster patents | ![]() ![]() |
May 13, 2010 |
40,000,000 | — | — | — | [13] |
8 | ShareGrove | ![]() |
May 26, 2010 |
— | Kent Libbey, Adam Wolff | Elm Street Ventures | Facebook Groups | [14] |
9 | Zenbe | ![]() |
July 6, 2010 |
— | Tom Alison, Will Bailey, Robert Kieffer | — | Facebook Messenger | [15] |
10 | Nextstop | ![]() |
July 8, 2010 |
2,500,000 | Charles Lin, Carl Sjogreen, Adrian Graham | ex-Google | — | [16] |
11 | Chai Labs | ![]() |
August 15, 2010 |
10,000,000 | Gokul Rajaram, Giri Rajaram, others | Merus Capital, ex-Google | — | [17] |
12 | Hot Potato | ![]() |
August 20, 2010 |
~10,000,000 | Saadiq Rodgers-King, Justin Shaffer, 6 others | RRE Ventures | Facebook Places | [18] |
13 | Drop.io | ![]() |
October 29, 2010 |
~10,000,000 | Sam Lessin | RRE Ventures | — | [19] |
14 | FB.com domain name | ![]() |
November 15, 2010 |
8,500,000 | — | — | — | [20] |
15 | Rel8tion | ![]() |
January 25, 2011 |
undisclosed | Peter Wilson | — | — | [21] |
16 | Beluga | ![]() |
March 2, 2011 |
undisclosed | Jonathan Perlow, Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport | — | Facebook Messenger | [22] |
17 | Snaptu | ![]() |
March 20, 2011 |
70,000,000 | — | — | — | [23] |
18 | RecRec | ![]() |
March 24, 2011 |
undisclosed | — | Dogpatch Labs | — | [24] |
19 | DayTum | ![]() |
April 27, 2011 |
undisclosed | Nicholas Felton, Ryan Case | — | — | [25] |
20 | Sofa | ![]() |
June 9, 2011 |
undisclosed | Koen Bok, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, Hugo van Heuven, Jorn van Dijk | — | — | [26] |
21 | MailRank | ![]() |
June 9, 2011 |
undisclosed | Bryan O'Sullivan and Bethanye McKinney Blount | — | — | [27] |
22 | Push Pop Press | ![]() |
August 2, 2011 |
undisclosed | Co-founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris | — | — | [28][29][30] |
23 | Friend.ly | ![]() |
October 10, 2011 |
undisclosed | Co-founder/CEO Ed Baker | — | — | [31][32][33] |
24 | Strobe | ![]() |
November 8, 2011 |
undisclosed | Founder and CEO Charles Jolley, other Strobe employees | — | Mobile engineering team | [34][35] |
25 | Gowalla | ![]() |
December 2, 2011 |
— | — | — | — | [36] |
26 | Caffeinatedmind | ![]() |
February 20, 2012 |
— | — | — | — | — |
27 | ![]() |
April 9, 2012 |
1,000,000,000 | — | — | — | — | |
28 | Tagtile | ![]() |
April 13, 2012 |
undisclosed | Tagtile's founders | — | — | [37][38] |
29 | Glancee | ![]() |
May 5, 2012 |
undisclosed | Andrea Vaccari, Alberto Tretti, Gabriel Grisé | — | Facebook Nearby Friends | [39][40] |
30 | Lightbox.com | ![]() |
May 15, 2012 |
undisclosed | Thai Tran, Nilesh Patel, Five employees | — | — | [41] |
31 | Karma | ![]() |
May 21, 2012 |
undisclosed | Lee Linden, Ben Lewis | — | Facebook Gifts | [42] |
32 | Face.com | ![]() |
June 18, 2012 |
100,000,000 | — | — | — | [43][44] |
33 | Spool | ![]() |
July 14, 2012 |
undisclosed | Avichal Garg, Curtis Spencer, Six employees | — | Mobile engineering team | [45] |
34 | Acrylic Software | ![]() |
July 20, 2012 |
undisclosed | Two employees | — | Facebook's design team | [46] |
35 | Threadsy | ![]() |
August 24, 2012 |
undisclosed | — | — | — | [47] |
36 | Atlas Solutions | ![]() |
February 28, 2013 |
<100,000,000 | — | — | — | [48] |
37 | osmeta | ![]() |
March 2013 |
— | 17 engineers | — | — | [49] |
38 | Storylane (Mixtent) | ![]() |
March 2013 |
— | Jonathan Gheller, 5 engineers | — | — | [50] |
39 | Hot Studio | ![]() |
March 14, 2013 |
— | — | — | — | [51] |
40 | Spaceport | ![]() |
April 23, 2013 |
— | — | — | — | [52] |
41 | Parse | ![]() |
April 25, 2013 |
85,000,000 | — | — | — | [53] |
42 | Monoidics | ![]() |
July 18, 2013 |
— | — | — | — | [54] |
43 | Jibbigo | ![]() |
August 12, 2013 |
— | — | — | — | [55] |
44 | Onavo | ![]() |
October 13, 2013 |
— | Guy Rosen, CEO | — | — | [56] |
45 | SportStream | ![]() |
December 17, 2013 |
— | — | — | — | [57] |
46 | Little Eye Labs | ![]() |
January 8, 2014 |
15,000,000 | — | — | — | [58][59] |
47 | Branch | ![]() |
January 13, 2014 |
15,000,000 | — | — | — | [60] |
48 | ![]() |
February 19, 2014 |
19,000,000,000 | Co-founder and CEO Jan Koum | — | — | [61] | |
49 | Oculus VR | ![]() |
March 25, 2014 |
2,000,000,000 | Co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe, Engineer Chris Dycus, and CTO John D. Carmack | — | Reality Labs | [62][63] |
50 | Ascenta | ![]() |
March 27, 2014 |
20,000,000 | — | — | — | [64] |
51 | Salorix | ![]() |
April 14, 2014 | — | Santanu Bhattacharya | — | — | |
52 | ProtoGeo Oy | ![]() |
April 24, 2014 |
undisclosed | — | — | Moves mobile app; discontinued in July 2018 | [65][66][67][68] |
53 | PrivateCore | ![]() |
August 7, 2014 |
undisclosed | — | — | — | [69] |
54 | LiveRail | ![]() |
August 14, 2014 |
400,000,000 - 500,000,000 | — | — | — | [70] |
55 | WaveGroup Sound | ![]() |
August 26, 2014 |
undisclosed | — | — | — | [71] |
56 | Wit.ai | ![]() |
January 6, 2015 |
undisclosed | — | — | — | [72] |
57 | Quickfire Networks | ![]() |
January 8, 2015 |
undisclosed | — | — | — | [73] |
58 | TheFind, Inc. | ![]() |
March 14, 2015 |
undisclosed | — | — | — | [74] |
59 | Surreal Vision | ![]() |
May 26, 2015 |
undisclosed | — | — | — | [75] |
60 | Endaga | ![]() |
October 3, 2015 |
undisclosed | — | — | — | [76] |
61 | Pebbles | ![]() |
July 16, 2015 |
60,000,000 | — | — | — | [77] |
62 | MSQRD (Masquerade) | ![]() |
March 9, 2016 |
undisclosed | CEO, Eugene Nevgen, Sergey Gonchar, Eugene Zatepyakin (co-founders) | — | — | [78][79] |
63 | Two Big Ears | ![]() |
May 23, 2016 | undisclosed | — | — | — | [80] |
64 | Nascent Objects | ![]() |
Sep 19, 2016 | undisclosed | — | — | — | [81] |
65 | Infiniled | ![]() |
October 10, 2016 | undisclosed | — | — | — | |
66 | CrowdTangle | ![]() |
November 11, 2016 | undisclosed | — | — | — | [82][83] |
67 | Faciometrics | ![]() |
November 16, 2016 | undisclosed | Fernando De la Torre | Carnegie Mellon University | — | [84] |
68 | Zurich Eye | ![]() |
November 2016 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus VR | [85] |
69 | Ozlo | ![]() |
July 31, 2017 | undisclosed | — | — | Facebook Messenger | [86] |
70 | Fayteq AG | ![]() |
August 2017 | undisclosed | — | — | Facebook Live | [87] |
71 | tbh | ![]() |
October 16, 2017 | undisclosed | CEO Nikita Bier, CTO Erik Hazzard, Kyle Zaragoza, Nicolas Ducdodon | — | — | [88] |
72 | Confirm | ![]() |
January 23, 2018 | undisclosed | Bob Geiman, Ralph Rodriguez, Walt Doyle | — | — | [89] |
73 | Bloomsbury AI | ![]() |
July 2018 | 30,000,000 | — | — | — | [90] |
74 | Redkix | ![]() |
July 26, 2018 | 100,000,000 | Oudi Antebi, Roy Antebi | — | Workplace by Facebook | [91] |
75 | Vidpresso | ![]() |
August 13, 2018 | undisclosed | Randall Bennett, Justin Carter, Pauli Ojala, Hassan Salahuddin | Y Combinator | — | [92] |
76 | Dreambit | ![]() |
September 2016 | undisclosed | Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Eli Shlizerman | University of Washington | Reality Labs | [93] |
77 | Chainspace | ![]() |
February 2019 | — | George Danezis, Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino | University College London | Facebook Blockchain | [94] |
78 | GrokStyle | ![]() |
February 8, 2019 | undisclosed | Kavita Bala, Sean Bell | — | — | [95] |
79 | Servicefriend | ![]() |
September 2019 | undisclosed | Ido Arad, Shahar Ben Ami | — | Novi | [96] |
80 | CTRL-labs | ![]() |
September 2019 | undisclosed, but reportedly between $500 million and $1 billion | Thomas Reardon, Patrick Kaifosh | — | Reality Labs | [97] |
81 | Packagd | ![]() |
September 2019 | undisclosed | — | — | Facebook Marketplace | [98] |
82 | Beat Games | ![]() |
November 2019 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [99] |
83 | Atlas ML | ![]() |
December 2019 | undisclosed | — | — | — | [100][101] |
84 | PlayGiga | ![]() |
December 2019 | 70,000,000 | — | — | — | [102][103] |
85 | Sanzaru Games | ![]() |
February 2020 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [104] |
86 | Scape Technologies | ![]() |
February 2020 | ~40,000,000 | — | — | Reality Labs | [105] |
87 | Giphy | ![]() |
May 15, 2020 | 400,000,000 | — | — | [106][107] | |
88 | Mapillary | ![]() |
June 18, 2020 | undisclosed | — | — | — | [108] |
89 | Ready at Dawn | ![]() |
June 22, 2020 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [104] |
90 | Lemnis Technologies | ![]() |
September 18, 2020 | undisclosed | Pierre-Yves Laffont | — | Reality Labs | [109] |
91 | Kustomer | ![]() |
November 30, 2020 | 1,000,000,000 | — | — | — | [110] |
92 | Downpour Interactive | ![]() |
April 30, 2021 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [111] |
93 | Unit 2 Games | ![]() |
June 4, 2021 | undisclosed | — | — | Facebook Gaming | |
94 | BigBox VR | ![]() |
June 11, 2021 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | |
95 | AI.Reverie | ![]() |
October 11, 2021 | undisclosed | — | — | — | [114] |
96 | Within | ![]() |
October 29, 2021 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [115] |
97 | Twisted Pixel Games | ![]() |
November 1, 2021 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [116] |
98 | Presize | ![]() |
April 8, 2022 | ~100,000,000 | Leon Szeli, Tomislav Tomov | Technical University Munich | Facebook Shops, Instagram Shopping | [117] |
99 | Lofelt | ![]() |
September 2022 | undisclosed | — | — | — | [118] |
100 | Armature Studio | ![]() |
October 11, 2022 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [116] |
101 | Camouflaj | ![]() |
October 11, 2022 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [116] |
See also
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