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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. 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." The Instagram acquisition, announced on April 9, 2012, appears to have been the first exception to this pattern. 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

NumberCompanyLocationAcquired onAcquired for (USD)Talent acquiredRelated toUsed as / integrated withReferences
1facebook.com domain name USA, Boston, Massachusetts

August 23, 2005

200,000——name change from Thefacebook.com56
2Parakey USA, Mountain View, California

July 19, 2007

—Blake Ross, Joe HewittY Combinator, Sequoia CapitalFacebook Mobile7
3ConnectU USA, Cambridge, Massachusetts

June 23, 2008

31,000,000—i2Hub(Court settlement)89
4FriendFeed USA, Mountain View, California

August 10, 2009

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

February 19, 2010

—2 engineers (remote workers)—Websluths11
6Divvyshot USA, San Francisco, California

March 2, 2010

—Sam Odio, Paul CardunerY Combinator, AngelListFacebook Photos12
7Friendster patents USA, Mountain View, California /   Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

May 13, 2010

40,000,000———13
8ShareGrove USA, San Mateo, California

May 26, 2010

—Kent Libbey, Adam WolffElm Street VenturesFacebook Groups14
9Zenbe USA, New York, NY, New York

July 6, 2010

—Tom Alison, Will Bailey, Robert Kiefer—Facebook Messenger15
10Nextstop USA, San Francisco, California

July 8, 2010

2,500,000Charles Lin, Carl Sjogreen, Adrian Grahamex-Google—16
11Chai Labs USA, Mountain View, California

August 15, 2010

10,000,000Gokul Rajaram, Giri Rajaram, othersMerus Capital, ex-Google—17
12Hot Potato USA, Brooklyn, New York

August 20, 2010

~10,000,000Saadiq Rodgers-King, Justin Shaffer, 6 othersRRE VenturesFacebook Places18
13Drop.io USA, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York

October 29, 2010

~10,000,000Sam LessinRRE Ventures—19
14FB.com domain name USA, Washington, D.C.

November 15, 2010

8,500,000———20
15Rel8tion USA, Seattle, Washington

January 25, 2011

undisclosedPeter Wilson——21
16Beluga USA, Palo Alto, California

March 2, 2011

undisclosedJonathan Perlow, Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport—Facebook Messenger22
17Snaptu Israel, Tel Aviv

March 20, 2011

70,000,000———23
18RecRec USA, San Francisco, California

March 24, 2011

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

April 27, 2011

undisclosedNicholas Felton, Ryan Case——25
20Sofa Netherlands, Amsterdam

June 9, 2011

undisclosedKoen Bok, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, Hugo van Heuven, Jorn van Dijk——26
21MailRank USA, New York, New York

June 9, 2011

undisclosedBryan O'Sullivan and Bethanye McKinney Blount——27
22Push Pop Press USA, San Francisco, California

August 2, 2011

undisclosedCo-founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris——282930
23Friend.ly USA, Mountain View, California

October 10, 2011

undisclosedCo-founder/CEO Ed Baker——313233
24Strobe USA, San Francisco, California

November 8, 2011

undisclosedFounder and CEO Charles Jolley, other Strobe employees—Mobile engineering team3435
25Gowalla USA, Austin, Texas

December 2, 2011

————36
26Caffeinatedmind USA, California

February 20, 2012

—————
27Instagram USA, San Francisco, California

April 9, 2012

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

April 13, 2012

undisclosedTagtile's founders——3738
29Glancee USA, San Francisco, California

May 5, 2012

undisclosedAndrea Vaccari, Alberto Tretti, Gabriel Grisé—Facebook Nearby Friends3940
30Lightbox.com UK, London, England

May 15, 2012

undisclosedThai Tran, Nilesh Patel, Five employees——41
31Karma USA, San Francisco, California

May 21, 2012

undisclosedLee Linden, Ben Lewis—Facebook Gifts42
32Face.com Israel, Tel Aviv

June 18, 2012

100,000,000———4344
33Spool USA, San Francisco, California

July 14, 2012

undisclosedAvichal Garg, Curtis Spencer, Six employees—Mobile engineering team45
34Acrylic Software Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

July 20, 2012

undisclosedTwo employees—Facebook's design team46
35Threadsy USA, San Francisco, California

August 24, 2012

undisclosed———47
36Atlas Solutions USA, Seattle, Washington

February 28, 2013

<100,000,000———48
37osmeta USA, Mountain View, CA

March 2013

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

March 2013

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

March 14, 2013

————51
40Spaceport USA, Burlingame, California

April 23, 2013

————52
41Parse USA, San Francisco, California

April 25, 2013

85,000,000———53
42Monoidics UK, London, England

July 18, 2013

————54
43Jibbigo USA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

August 12, 2013

————55
44Onavo Israel, Tel Aviv

October 13, 2013

—Guy Rosen, CEO——56
45SportStream USA, San Francisco, California

December 17, 2013

————57
46Little Eye Labs India, Bengaluru, Karnataka

January 8, 2014

15,000,000———5859
47Branch USA, New York, New York

January 13, 2014

15,000,000———60
48WhatsApp USA, Mountain View, California

February 19, 2014

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

March 25, 2014

2,000,000,000Co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe, Engineer Chris Dycus, and CTO John D. Carmack—Reality Labs6263
50Ascenta UK, Somerset, England

March 27, 2014

20,000,000———64
51Salorix USA, Palo Alto, CAApril 14, 2014—Santanu Bhattacharya——
52ProtoGeo Oy Finland, Helsinki

April 24, 2014

undisclosed——Moves mobile app; discontinued in July 201865666768
53PrivateCore USA, Palo Alto, California

August 7, 2014

undisclosed———69
54LiveRail USA, San Francisco, California

August 14, 2014

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

August 26, 2014

undisclosed———71
56Wit.ai USA, Palo Alto, California

January 6, 2015

undisclosed———72
57Quickfire Networks USA, San Diego, California

January 8, 2015

undisclosed———73
58TheFind, Inc. USA, Mountain View, California

March 14, 2015

undisclosed———74
59Surreal Vision UK, London, England

May 26, 2015

undisclosed———75
60Endaga US, Oakland, California

October 3, 2015

undisclosed———76
61Pebbles Israel, Kfar Saba

July 16, 2015

60,000,000———77
62MSQRD (Masquerade) Belarus, Minsk

March 9, 2016

undisclosedCEO, Eugene Nevgen, Sergey Gonchar, Eugene Zatepyakin (co-founders)——7879
63Two Big Ears UK, ScotlandMay 23, 2016undisclosed———80
64Nascent Objects US, CaliforniaSep 19, 2016undisclosed———81
65Infiniled Ireland, CorkOctober 10, 2016undisclosed———
66CrowdTangle USANovember 11, 2016undisclosed———8283
67Faciometrics USA, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaNovember 16, 2016undisclosedFernando De la TorreCarnegie Mellon University—84
68Zurich Eye  SwitzerlandNovember 2016undisclosed——Oculus VR85
69Ozlo USA, Palo Alto, CaliforniaJuly 31, 2017undisclosed——Facebook Messenger86
70Fayteq AG GermanyAugust 2017undisclosed——Facebook Live87
71tbh USA, Oakland, CaliforniaOctober 16, 2017undisclosedCEO Nikita Bier, CTO Erik Hazzard, Kyle Zaragoza, Nicolas Ducdodon——88
72Confirm USA, Boston, MassachusettsJanuary 23, 2018undisclosedBob Geiman, Ralph Rodriguez, Walt Doyle——89
73Bloomsbury AI UK，LondonJuly 201830,000,000———90
74Redkix Israel, Tel AvivJuly 26, 2018100,000,000Oudi Antebi, Roy Antebi—Workplace by Facebook91
75Vidpresso USA, Ogden, UtahAugust 13, 2018undisclosedRandall Bennett, Justin Carter, Pauli Ojala, Hassan SalahuddinY Combinator—92
76Dreambit USA, Seattle, WashingtonSeptember 2016undisclosedIra Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Eli ShlizermanUniversity of WashingtonReality Labs93
77Chainspace UK, LondonFebruary 2019—George Danezis, Shehar Bano, Alberto SonninoUniversity College LondonFacebook Blockchain94
78GrokStyle USA, San Francisco, CaliforniaFebruary 8, 2019undisclosedKavita Bala, Sean Bell——95
79Servicefriend Israel, Tel AvivSeptember 2019undisclosedIdo Arad, Shahar Ben Ami—Novi96
80CTRL-labs USA, New York City, New YorkSeptember 2019undisclosed, but reportedly between $500 million and $1 billionThomas Reardon, Patrick Kaifosh—Reality Labs97
81Packagd USA, San Francisco, CaliforniaSeptember 2019undisclosed——Facebook Marketplace98
82Beat Games Czech Republic, PragueNovember 2019undisclosed——Oculus Studio99
83Atlas ML UK, LondonDecember 2019undisclosed———100101
84PlayGiga Spain, MadridDecember 201970,000,000———102103
85Sanzaru Games USA, Foster City, CaliforniaFebruary 2020undisclosed——Oculus Studio104
86Scape Technologies UK, LondonFebruary 2020~40,000,000——Reality Labs105
87Giphy USA, San Francisco, New YorkMay 15, 2020400,000,000——Instagram106107
88Mapillary Sweden, MalmöJune 18, 2020undisclosed———108
89Ready at Dawn USA, Irvine, CaliforniaJune 22, 2020undisclosed——Oculus Studio109
90Lemnis Technologies Singapore, SingaporeSeptember 18, 2020undisclosedPierre-Yves Laffont—Reality Labs110
91Kustomer USA, New York, New YorkNovember 30, 20201,000,000,000———111
92Downpour Interactive USA, San Francisco, CaliforniaApril 30, 2021undisclosed——Oculus Studio112
93Unit 2 Games UK, Leamington SpaJune 4, 2021undisclosed——Facebook Gaming

113

94BigBox VR USA, Seattle, WashingtonJune 11, 2021undisclosed——Oculus Studio

114

95AI.Reverie USA, New York, NY, New YorkOctober 11, 2021undisclosed———115
96Within USA, Los Angeles, CaliforniaOctober 29, 2021undisclosed——Oculus Studio116
97Twisted Pixel Games USANovember 1, 2021undisclosed——Oculus Studio117
98Presize Germany, MunichApril 8, 2022~100,000,000Leon Szeli, Tomislav TomovTechnical University MunichFacebook Shops, Instagram Shopping118
99Lofelt Germany, BerlinSeptember 2022undisclosed———119
100Armature Studio USAOctober 11, 2022undisclosed——Oculus Studio120
101Camouflaj USAOctober 11, 2022undisclosed——Oculus Studio121

See also

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