List of mergers and acquisitions by Meta Platforms

Summary

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.

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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
1 facebook.com domain name   USA, Boston, Massachusetts

August 23, 2005

200,000 name change from Thefacebook.com [5][6]
2 Parakey   USA, Mountain View, California

July 19, 2007

Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital Facebook Mobile [7]
3 ConnectU   USA, Cambridge, Massachusetts

June 23, 2008

31,000,000 i2Hub (Court settlement) [8][9]
4 FriendFeed   USA, Mountain View, California

August 10, 2009

47,500,000 Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh, 8 others Benchmark Capital, ex-Google [10]
5 Octazen   Malaysia, Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur

February 19, 2010

2 engineers (remote workers) Websluths [11]
6 Divvyshot   USA, San Francisco, California

March 2, 2010

Sam Odio, Paul Carduner Y Combinator, AngelList Facebook Photos [12]
7 Friendster patents   USA, Mountain View, California  Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

May 13, 2010

40,000,000 [13]
8 ShareGrove   USA, San Mateo, California

May 26, 2010

Kent Libbey, Adam Wolff Elm Street Ventures Facebook Groups [14]
9 Zenbe   USA, New York, NY, New York

July 6, 2010

Tom Alison, Will Bailey, Robert Kiefer Facebook Messenger [15]
10 Nextstop   USA, San Francisco, California

July 8, 2010

2,500,000 Charles Lin, Carl Sjogreen, Adrian Graham ex-Google [16]
11 Chai Labs   USA, Mountain View, California

August 15, 2010

10,000,000 Gokul Rajaram, Giri Rajaram, others Merus Capital, ex-Google [17]
12 Hot Potato   USA, Brooklyn, New York

August 20, 2010

~10,000,000 Saadiq Rodgers-King, Justin Shaffer, 6 others RRE Ventures Facebook Places [18]
13 Drop.io   USA, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York

October 29, 2010

~10,000,000 Sam Lessin RRE Ventures [19]
14 FB.com domain name   USA, Washington, D.C.

November 15, 2010

8,500,000 [20]
15 Rel8tion   USA, Seattle, Washington

January 25, 2011

undisclosed Peter Wilson [21]
16 Beluga   USA, Palo Alto, California

March 2, 2011

undisclosed Jonathan Perlow, Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport Facebook Messenger [22]
17 Snaptu   Israel, Tel Aviv

March 20, 2011

70,000,000 [23]
18 RecRec   USA, San Francisco, California

March 24, 2011

undisclosed Dogpatch Labs [24]
19 DayTum   USA, SoHo, New York City

April 27, 2011

undisclosed Nicholas Felton, Ryan Case [25]
20 Sofa   Netherlands, Amsterdam

June 9, 2011

undisclosed Koen Bok, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, Hugo van Heuven, Jorn van Dijk [26]
21 MailRank   USA, New York, New York

June 9, 2011

undisclosed Bryan O’Sullivan and Bethanye McKinney Blount [27]
22 Push Pop Press   USA, San Francisco, California

August 2, 2011

undisclosed Co-founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris [28][29][30]
23 Friend.ly   USA, Mountain View, California

October 10, 2011

undisclosed Co-founder/CEO Ed Baker [31][32][33]
24 Strobe   USA, San Francisco, California

November 8, 2011

undisclosed Founder and CEO Charles Jolley, other Strobe employees Mobile engineering team [34][35]
25 Gowalla   USA, Austin, Texas

December 2, 2011

[36]
26 Caffeinatedmind   USA, California

February 20, 2012

27 Instagram   USA, San Francisco, California

April 9, 2012

1,000,000,000
28 Tagtile   USA, San Francisco, California

April 13, 2012

undisclosed Tagtile's founders [37][38]
29 Glancee   USA, San Francisco, California

May 5, 2012

undisclosed Andrea Vaccari, Alberto Tretti, Gabriel Grisé Facebook Nearby Friends [39][40]
30 Lightbox.com   UK, London, England

May 15, 2012

undisclosed Thai Tran, Nilesh Patel, Five employees [41]
31 Karma   USA, San Francisco, California

May 21, 2012

undisclosed Lee Linden, Ben Lewis Facebook Gifts [42]
32 Face.com   Israel, Tel Aviv

June 18, 2012

100,000,000 [43][44]
33 Spool   USA, San Francisco, California

July 14, 2012

undisclosed Avichal Garg, Curtis Spencer, Six employees Mobile engineering team [45]
34 Acrylic Software   Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

July 20, 2012

undisclosed Two employees Facebook's design team [46]
35 Threadsy   USA, San Francisco, California

August 24, 2012

undisclosed [47]
36 Atlas Solutions   USA, Seattle, Washington

February 28, 2013

<100,000,000 [48]
37 osmeta   USA, Mountain View, CA

March 2013

17 engineers [49]
38 Storylane (Mixtent)   USA, Palo Alto, CA

March 2013

Jonathan Gheller, 5 engineers [50]
39 Hot Studio   USA, New York, New York, San Francisco, California

March 14, 2013

[51]
40 Spaceport   USA, Burlingame, California

April 23, 2013

[52]
41 Parse   USA, San Francisco, California

April 25, 2013

85,000,000 [53]
42 Monoidics   UK, London, England

July 18, 2013

[54]
43 Jibbigo   USA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

August 12, 2013

[55]
44 Onavo   Israel, Tel Aviv

October 13, 2013

Guy Rosen, CEO [56]
45 SportStream   USA, San Francisco, California

December 17, 2013

[57]
46 Little Eye Labs   India, Bengaluru, Karnataka

January 8, 2014

15,000,000 [58][59]
47 Branch   USA, New York, New York

January 13, 2014

15,000,000 [60]
48 WhatsApp   USA, Mountain View, California

February 19, 2014

19,000,000,000 Co-founder and CEO Jan Koum [61]
49 Oculus VR   USA, Irvine, California

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   UK, Somerset, England

March 27, 2014

20,000,000 [64]
51 Salorix   USA, Palo Alto, CA April 14, 2014 Santanu Bhattacharya
52 ProtoGeo Oy   Finland, Helsinki

April 24, 2014

undisclosed Moves mobile app; discontinued in July 2018 [65][66][67][68]
53 PrivateCore   USA, Palo Alto, California

August 7, 2014

undisclosed [69]
54 LiveRail   USA, San Francisco, California

August 14, 2014

400,000,000 - 500,000,000 [70]
55 WaveGroup Sound   USA, Burlingame, California

August 26, 2014

undisclosed [71]
56 Wit.ai   USA, Palo Alto, California

January 6, 2015

undisclosed [72]
57 Quickfire Networks   USA, San Diego, California

January 8, 2015

undisclosed [73]
58 TheFind, Inc.   USA, Mountain View, California

March 14, 2015

undisclosed [74]
59 Surreal Vision   UK, London, England

May 26, 2015

undisclosed [75]
60 Endaga   US, Oakland, California

October 3, 2015

undisclosed [76]
61 Pebbles   Israel, Kfar Saba

July 16, 2015

60,000,000 [77]
62 MSQRD (Masquerade)   Belarus, Minsk

March 9, 2016

undisclosed CEO, Eugene Nevgen, Sergey Gonchar, Eugene Zatepyakin (co-founders) [78][79]
63 Two Big Ears   UK, Scotland May 23, 2016 undisclosed [80]
64 Nascent Objects   US, California Sep 19, 2016 undisclosed [81]
65 Infiniled   Ireland, Cork October 10, 2016 undisclosed
66 CrowdTangle   USA November 11, 2016 undisclosed [82][83]
67 Faciometrics   USA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania November 16, 2016 undisclosed Fernando De la Torre Carnegie Mellon University [84]
68 Zurich Eye    Switzerland November 2016 undisclosed Oculus VR [85]
69 Ozlo   USA, Palo Alto, California July 31, 2017 undisclosed Facebook Messenger [86]
70 Fayteq AG   Germany August 2017 undisclosed Facebook Live [87]
71 tbh   USA, Oakland, California October 16, 2017 undisclosed CEO Nikita Bier, CTO Erik Hazzard, Kyle Zaragoza, Nicolas Ducdodon [88]
72 Confirm   USA, Boston, Massachusetts January 23, 2018 undisclosed Bob Geiman, Ralph Rodriguez, Walt Doyle [89]
73 Bloomsbury AI   UK,London July 2018 30,000,000 [90]
74 Redkix   Israel, Tel Aviv July 26, 2018 100,000,000 Oudi Antebi, Roy Antebi Workplace by Facebook [91]
75 Vidpresso   USA, Ogden, Utah August 13, 2018 undisclosed Randall Bennett, Justin Carter, Pauli Ojala, Hassan Salahuddin Y Combinator [92]
76 Dreambit   USA, Seattle, Washington Sep 2016 undisclosed Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Eli Shlizerman University of Washington Reality Labs [93]
77 Chainspace   UK, London February 2019 George Danezis, Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino University College London Facebook Blockchain [94]
78 GrokStyle   USA, San Francisco, California February 8, 2019 undisclosed Kavita Bala, Sean Bell [95]
79 Servicefriend   Israel, Tel Aviv September 2019 undisclosed Ido Arad, Shahar Ben Ami Novi [96]
80 CTRL-labs   USA, New York City, New York September 2019 undisclosed, but reportedly between $500 million and $1 billion Thomas Reardon, Patrick Kaifosh Reality Labs [97]
81 Packagd   USA, San Francisco, California September 2019 undisclosed Facebook Marketplace [98]
82 Beat Games   Czech Republic, Prague November 2019 undisclosed Oculus Studio [99]
83 PlayGiga   Spain, Madrid December 2019 70,000,000 [100][101]
84 Sanzaru Games   USA, Foster City, California February 2020 undisclosed Oculus Studio [102]
85 Scape Technologies   UK, London February 2020 ~40,000,000 Reality Labs [103]
86 Giphy   USA, San Francisco, New York May 15, 2020 400,000,000 Instagram [104][105]
87 Mapillary   Sweden, Malmö June 18, 2020 undisclosed [106]
88 Ready at Dawn   USA, Irvine, California June 22, 2020 undisclosed Oculus Studio [102]
89 Lemnis Technologies   Singapore, Singapore September 18, 2020 undisclosed Pierre-Yves Laffont Reality Labs [107]
90 Kustomer   USA, New York, New York November 30, 2020 1,000,000,000 [108]
91 Downpour Interactive   USA, San Francisco, California April 30, 2021 undisclosed Oculus Studio [109]
92 Unit 2 Games   UK, Leamington Spa June 4, 2021 undisclosed Facebook Gaming

[110]

93 BigBox VR   USA, Seattle, Washington June 11, 2021 undisclosed Oculus Studio

[111]

94 AI.Reverie   USA, New York, NY, New York Oct 11, 2021 undisclosed [112]
95 Within   USA, Los Angeles, California Oct 29, 2021 undisclosed Oculus Studio [113]
96 Twisted Pixel Games   USA Nov 1, 2021 undisclosed Oculus Studio [114]
97 Presize   Germany, Munich April 8, 2022 ~100,000,000 Leon Szeli, Tomislav Tomov Technical University Munich Facebook Shops, Instagram Shopping [115]
98 Lofelt   Germany, Berlin September 2022 undisclosed [116]
99 Armature Studio   USA Oct 11, 2022 undisclosed Oculus Studio [114]
100 Camouflaj   USA Oct 11, 2022 undisclosed Oculus Studio [114]

See also edit

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