List of mergers and acquisitions by Facebook

Facebook is a social networking company that has acquired 71 other companies, including WhatsApp. The WhatsApp acquisition closed at a steep $19 billion; more than $40 per user of the platform. Facebook 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 Facebook 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. Facebook has also made investments in LuckyCal and Wildfire Interactive.

Most of Facebook's acquisitions have primarily been "talent acquisitions" and acquired products are often shut-down. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has 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."[1] The Instagram acquisition, announced on 2012-04-09, appears to have been the first exception to this pattern.[2] 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

Acquisition date Company Business Location Value (USD) Related to Used as / Integrated with Talent acquired Refs

August 23, 2005

 facebook.com domain name AboutFace Corporation  USA, Boston, Massachusetts 200,000  — name change from Thefacebook.com  — [3][4]

July 19, 2007

 Parakey Offline applications/Web desktop  USA, Mountain View, California Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital Facebook Mobile Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt [5]

June 23, 2008

 ConnectU Social networking  USA, Cambridge, Massachusetts 31,000,000 i2Hub (Court settlement) None [6][7]

August 10, 2009

 FriendFeed Social networking aggregator  USA, Mountain View, California 47,500,000 Benchmark Capital, ex-Google Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh, 8 others [8]

February 19, 2010

 Octazen Contact importer  Malaysia, Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur FriendFinder 2 engineers (remote workers) [9]

March 2, 2010

 Divvyshot Photo management  USA, San Francisco, California Y Combinator, AngelList Facebook Photos Sam Odio, Paul Carduner [10]

May 13, 2010

 Friendster patents Intellectual property/patents  USA, Mountain View, California /   Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur 40,000,000 None [11]

May 26, 2010

 ShareGrove Private conversations/Forums  USA, San Mateo, California Elm Street Ventures Facebook Groups Kent Libbey, Adam Wolff [12]

July 8, 2010

 Nextstop Travel recommendations  USA, San Francisco, California 2,500,000 ex-Google Charles Lin, Carl Sjogreen, Adrian Graham [13]

August 15, 2010

 Chai Labs Internet applications  USA, Mountain View, California 10,000,000 Merus Capital, ex-Google Gokul Rajaram, Giri Rajaram, others [14]

August 20, 2010

 Hot Potato Check-ins/status updates  USA, Brooklyn, New York ~10,000,000 RRE Ventures Facebook Places Saadiq Rodgers-King, Justin Shaffer, 6 others [15]

October 29, 2010

 Drop.io File hosting and sharing  USA, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York ~10,000,000 RRE Ventures Sam Lessin [16]

November 15, 2010

 FB.com domain name American Farm Bureau Federation  USA, Washington, D.C. 8,500,000  —  —  — [17]

January 25, 2011

 Rel8tion Mobile advertising  USA, Seattle, Washington undisclosed Peter Wilson [18]

March 2, 2011

 Beluga Group messaging  USA, Palo Alto, California undisclosed Facebook Messenger Jonathan Perlow, Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport [19]

March 20, 2011

 Snaptu Mobile app developer  Israel, Tel Aviv 70,000,000 Mobile [20]

March 24, 2011

 RecRec Computer vision  USA, San Francisco, California undisclosed Dogpatch Labs [21]

April 27, 2011

 DayTum Information graphics  USA, SoHo, New York City Nicholas Felton, Ryan Case [22]

June 9, 2011

 Sofa Software design  Netherlands, Amsterdam Koen Bok, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, Hugo van Heuven, Jorn van Dijk [23]

June 9, 2011

 MailRank Email prioritization  USA, New York, New York Bryan O’Sullivan and Bethanye McKinney Blount [24]

August 2, 2011

 Push Pop Press Digital publishing  USA, San Francisco, California undisclosed Co-founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris [25][26][27]

October 10, 2011

 Friend.ly Social casual Q&A service app  USA, Mountain View, California undisclosed [28][29][30]

November 8, 2011

 Strobe HTML5 mobile apps, SproutCore  USA, San Francisco, California undisclosed Mobile engineering team Founder and CEO Charles Jolley, other Strobe employees [31][32]

December 02, 2011

 Gowalla Location Based Service  USA, Austin, Texas [33]

February 20, 2012

 Caffeinatedmind In-browser file transfer  USA, California

April 9, 2012

 Instagram Photo sharing  USA, San Francisco, California 1,000,000,000

April 13, 2012

 Tagtile Customer loyalty app  USA, San Francisco, California undisclosed Tagtile's founders [34][35]

May 5, 2012

 Glancee Social discovery platform  USA, San Francisco, California undisclosed Three co-founders [36][37]

May 15, 2012

 Lightbox.com Photo sharing  UK, London, England undisclosed Thai Tran, Nilesh Patel, Five employees [38]

May 21, 2012

 Karma Social gifting  USA, San Francisco, California undisclosed Facebook Gifts Lee Linden, Ben Lewis [39]

June 18, 2012

 Face.com Face recognition platform  Israel, Tel Aviv 100,000,000 [40][41]

July 14, 2012

 Spool Mobile bookmarking and sharing content  USA, San Francisco, California undisclosed Mobile engineering team Avichal Garg, Curtis Spencer, Six employees [42]

July 20, 2012

 Acrylic Software RSS app Pulp and secure database app Wallet  Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia undisclosed Facebook's design team Two employees [43]

August 24, 2012

 Threadsy Threadsy is a social aggregator, Maker of social marketing tool Swaylo  USA, San Francisco, California undisclosed [44]

February 28, 2013

 Atlas Solutions Atlas advertiser suite  USA, Seattle, Washington less than 100,000,000 [45]

March 2013

 osmeta Mobile software  USA, Mountain View, CA 17 engineers [46]

March 14, 2013

 Hot Studio Design agency  USA, New York, New York, San Francisco, California [47]

April 23, 2013

 Spaceport Cross-platform game framework  USA, Burlingame, California [48]

April 25, 2013

 Parse Mobile app backends  USA, San Francisco, California 85,000,000 [49]

July 18, 2013

 Monoidics Automatic verification software  UK, London, England [50]

August 12, 2013

 Jibbigo Speech translation app  USA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [51]

October 13, 2013

 Onavo Mobile analytics and Israel Facebook Headquarters Office  Israel, Tel Aviv [52]

December 17, 2013

 SportStream Sports conversation analysis  USA, San Francisco, California [53]

January 8, 2014

 Little Eye Labs Performance analysis and monitoring tools for Android  India, Bengaluru, Karnataka 15,000,000 [54][55]

January 13, 2014

 Branch Web conversation platform  USA, New York, New York 15,000,000 [56]

February 19, 2014

 WhatsApp Mobile messaging  USA, Mountain View, California 19,000,000,000 Co-founder and CEO Jan Koum [57]

March 25, 2014

 Oculus VR Virtual reality technology  USA, Irvine, California 2,000,000,000 Co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe, Engineer Chris Dycus, and CTO John D. Carmack [58][59]

March 27, 2014

 Ascenta High-altitude UAVs  UK, Somerset, England 20,000,000 [60]

April 24, 2014

 ProtoGeo Oy Fitness tracking app Moves  Finland, Helsinki undisclosed [61]

August 7, 2014

 PrivateCore Secure Server Technology  USA, Palo Alto, California undisclosed [62]

August 14, 2014

 LiveRail Publisher Monetization Platform  USA, San Francisco, California 400,000,000 - 500,000,000 [63]

August 26, 2014

 WaveGroup Sound Sound Studio  USA, Burlingame, California undisclosed [64]

January 6, 2015

 Wit.ai Speech recognition  USA, Palo Alto, California undisclosed [65]

January 8, 2015

 Quickfire Networks Video Compression  USA, San Diego, California undisclosed [66][67]

March 14, 2015

 TheFind, Inc. Ecommerce  USA, Mountain View, California undisclosed [68]

May 26, 2015

 Surreal Vision Computer vision, augmented reality  UK, London, England undisclosed [69]

October 3, 2015

 Endaga Rural communications  US, Oakland, California undisclosed [70]

July 16, 2015

 Pebbles Computer vision, augmented reality  Israel, Kfar Saba 60,000,000 [71]

March 9, 2016

 MSQRD (Masquerade) Visual effects (Face-swapping)  Belarus, Minsk undisclosed CEO, Eugene Nevgen, Sergey Gonchar, Eugene Zatepyakin (co-founders) [72][73]
May 23, 2016 Two Big Ears Spatial Audio  UK, Scotland undisclosed [74]
Sep 19, 2016 Nascent Objects Modular Electronics  US, California undisclosed [75]
October 10, 2016 Infiniled Oculus VR  Ireland, Cork undisclosed
November 11, 2016 CrowdTangle Publisher analytics  USA undisclosed [76]
November 16, 2016 Faciometrics Computer Vision, Machine Learning  USA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania undisclosed Carnegie Mellon University Fernando De la Torre [77]
July 31, 2017 Ozlo Artificial Intelligence  USA, Palo Alto, California undisclosed Facebook Messenger [78]
October 16, 2017 tbh Anonymous social media app  USA, Oakland, California undisclosed CEO Nikita Bier, CTO Erik Hazzard, Kyle Zaragoza, Nicolas Ducdodon [79]
January 23, 2018 Confirm Government Issued ID Verification Platform  USA, Boston, Massachusetts undisclosed Bob Geiman, Ralph Rodriguez, Walt Doyle [80]
July 26, 2018 Redkix Team Messaging via E-Mail  Israel, Tel Aviv 100,000,000 Workplace by Facebook Oudi Antebi, Roy Antebi [81]
August 13, 2018 Vidpresso Video software  USA, Ogden, Utah Undisclosed Y Combinator Randall Bennett, Justin Carter, Pauli Ojala, Hassan Salahuddin

See also

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