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.
| Number | Company | Location | Acquired on | Acquired for (USD) | Talent acquired | Related to | Used as / integrated with | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | facebook.com domain name |  United States, Boston, Massachusetts | August 23, 2005 | 200,000 | — | — | name change from Thefacebook.com | [5] | [6] |
| 2 | Parakey | United States, Mountain View, California | July 19, 2007 | — | Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt | Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital | Facebook Mobile | [7] | |
| 3 | ConnectU | United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts | June 23, 2008 | 31,000,000 | — | i2Hub | (Court settlement) | [8] [9] | |
| 4 | FriendFeed | United States, 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 | United States, San Francisco, California | March 2, 2010 | — | Sam Odio, Paul Carduner | Y Combinator, AngelList | Facebook Photos | [12] | |
| 7 | Friendster patents | United States, Mountain View, California / Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur | May 13, 2010 | 40,000,000 | — | — | — | [13] | |
| 8 | ShareGrove | United States, San Mateo, California | May 26, 2010 | — | Kent Libbey, Adam Wolff | Elm Street Ventures | Facebook Groups | [14] | |
| 9 | Zenbe | United States, New York, NY, New York | July 6, 2010 | — | Tom Alison, Will Bailey, Robert Kiefer | — | Facebook Messenger | [15] | |
| 10 | Nextstop | United States, San Francisco, California | July 8, 2010 | 2,500,000 | Charles Lin, Carl Sjogreen, Adrian Graham | ex-Google | — | [16] | |
| 11 | Chai Labs | United States, Mountain View, California | August 15, 2010 | 10,000,000 | Gokul Rajaram, Giri Rajaram, others | Merus Capital, ex-Google | — | [17] | |
| 12 | Hot Potato | United States, Brooklyn, New York | August 20, 2010 | ~10,000,000 | Saadiq Rodgers-King, Justin Shaffer, 6 others | RRE Ventures | Facebook Places | [18] | |
| 13 | Drop.io | United States, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York | October 29, 2010 | ~10,000,000 | Sam Lessin | RRE Ventures | — | [19] | |
| 14 | FB.com domain name | United States, Washington, D.C. | November 15, 2010 | 8,500,000 | — | — | — | [20] | |
| 15 | Rel8tion | United States, Seattle, Washington | January 25, 2011 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Peter Wilson | — | — | [21] |
| 16 | Beluga | United States, Palo Alto, California | March 2, 2011 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Jonathan Perlow, Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport | — | Facebook Messenger | [22] |
| 17 | Snaptu |  Israel, Tel Aviv | March 20, 2011 | 70,000,000 | — | — | — | [23] | |
| 18 | RecRec | United States, San Francisco, California | March 24, 2011 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | Dogpatch Labs | — | [24] |
| 19 | DayTum | United States, SoHo, New York City | April 27, 2011 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Nicholas Felton, Ryan Case | — | — | [25] |
| 20 | Sofa |  Netherlands, Amsterdam | June 9, 2011 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Koen Bok, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, Hugo van Heuven, Jorn van Dijk | — | — | [26] |
| 21 | MailRank | United States, New York, New York | June 9, 2011 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Bryan O’Sullivan and Bethanye McKinney Blount | — | — | [27] |
| 22 | Push Pop Press | United States, San Francisco, California | August 2, 2011 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Co-founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris | — | — | [28] [29] [30] |
| 23 | Friend.ly | United States, Mountain View, California | October 10, 2011 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Co-founder/CEO Ed Baker | — | — | [31] [32] [33] |
| 24 | Strobe | United States, San Francisco, California | November 8, 2011 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Founder and CEO Charles Jolley, other Strobe employees | — | Mobile engineering team | [34] [35] |
| 25 | Gowalla | United States, Austin, Texas | December 2, 2011 | Co-founders Josh Williams and Scott Raymond; Keegan Jones, Adam Michela, Sherry Birk, Thorben Primke | — | — | — | — | [36] |
| 26 | Caffeinatedmind | United States, California | February 20, 2012 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 27 | United States, San Francisco, California | April 9, 2012 | 1,000,000,000 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 28 | Tagtile | United States, San Francisco, California | April 13, 2012 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Tagtile's founders | — | — | [37] [38] |
| 29 | Glancee | United States, San Francisco, California | May 5, 2012 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Andrea Vaccari, Alberto Tretti, Gabriel Grisé | — | Facebook Nearby Friends | [39] [40] |
| 30 | Lightbox.com | , London, England | May 15, 2012 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Thai Tran, Nilesh Patel, Five employees | — | — | [41] |
| 31 | Karma | United States, San Francisco, California | May 21, 2012 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Lee Linden, Ben Lewis | — | Facebook Gifts | [42] |
| 32 | Face.com | Israel, Tel Aviv | June 18, 2012 | 100,000,000 | — | — | — | [43] [44] | |
| 33 | Spool | United States, San Francisco, California | July 14, 2012 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Avichal Garg, Curtis Spencer, Six employees | — | Mobile engineering team | [45] |
| 34 | Acrylic Software |  Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia | July 20, 2012 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Two employees | — | Facebook's design team | [46] |
| 35 | Threadsy | United States, San Francisco, California | August 24, 2012 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [47] |
| 36 | Atlas Solutions | United States, Seattle, Washington | February 28, 2013 | <100,000,000 | — | — | — | [48] | |
| 37 | osmeta | United States, Mountain View, CA | data-sort-value="March 1, 2013" | March 2013 | — | 17 engineers | — | — | [49] |
| 38 | Storylane (Mixtent) | United States, Palo Alto, CA | data-sort-value="March 1, 2013" | March 2013 | — | Jonathan Gheller, 5 engineers | — | — | [50] |
| 39 | Hot Studio | United States, New York, New York, San Francisco, California | March 14, 2013 | — | — | — | — | [51] | |
| 40 | Spaceport | United States, Burlingame, California | April 23, 2013 | — | — | — | — | [52] | |
| 41 | Parse | United States, San Francisco, California | April 25, 2013 | 85,000,000 | — | — | — | [53] | |
| 42 | Monoidics | , London, England | July 18, 2013 | — | — | — | — | [54] | |
| 43 | Jibbigo | United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | August 12, 2013 | — | — | — | — | [55] | |
| 44 | Onavo | Israel, Tel Aviv | October 13, 2013 | — | Guy Rosen, CEO | — | — | [56] | |
| 45 | SportStream | United States, San Francisco, California | December 17, 2013 | — | — | — | — | [57] | |
| 46 | Little Eye Labs |  India, Bengaluru, Karnataka | January 8, 2014 | 15,000,000 | — | — | — | [58] [59] | |
| 47 | Branch | United States, New York, New York | January 13, 2014 | 15,000,000 | — | — | — | [60] | |
| 48 | United States, Mountain View, California | February 19, 2014 | 19,000,000,000 | Co-founder and CEO Jan Koum | — | — | [61] | ||
| 49 | Oculus VR | United States, 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 | , Somerset, England | March 27, 2014 | 20,000,000 | — | — | — | [64] | |
| 51 | Salorix | United States, Palo Alto, CA | April 14, 2014 | — | Santanu Bhattacharya | — | — | ||
| 52 | ProtoGeo Oy |  Finland, Helsinki | April 24, 2014 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | Moves mobile app; discontinued in July 2018 | [65] [66] [67] [68] |
| 53 | PrivateCore | United States, Palo Alto, California | August 7, 2014 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [69] |
| 54 | LiveRail | United States, San Francisco, California | August 14, 2014 | 400,000,000 - 500,000,000 | — | — | — | [70] | |
| 55 | WaveGroup Sound | United States, Burlingame, California | August 26, 2014 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [71] |
| 56 | Wit.ai | United States, Palo Alto, California | January 6, 2015 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [72] |
| 57 | Quickfire Networks | United States, San Diego, California | January 8, 2015 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [73] |
| 58 | TheFind, Inc. | United States, Mountain View, California | March 14, 2015 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [74] |
| 59 | Surreal Vision | , London, England | May 26, 2015 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [75] |
| 60 | Endaga | United States, Oakland, California | October 3, 2015 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [76] |
| 61 | Pebbles | Israel, Kfar Saba | July 16, 2015 | 60,000,000 | — | — | — | [77] | |
| 62 | MSQRD (Masquerade) |  Belarus, Minsk | March 9, 2016 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | CEO, Eugene Nevgen, Sergey Gonchar, Eugene Zatepyakin (co-founders) | — | — | [78] [79] |
| 63 | Two Big Ears | , Scotland | May 23, 2016 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [80] |
| 64 | Nascent Objects | United States, California | Sep 19, 2016 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [81] |
| 65 | Infiniled |  Ireland, Cork | October 10, 2016 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | |
| 66 | CrowdTangle | United States | November 11, 2016 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [82] [83] |
| 67 | Faciometrics | United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | November 16, 2016 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Fernando De la Torre | Carnegie Mellon University | — | [84] |
| 68 | Zurich Eye | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus VR | [85] | ||
| 69 | Ozlo | United States, Palo Alto, California | July 31, 2017 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | Facebook Messenger | [86] |
| 70 | Fayteq AG | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | Facebook Live | [87] | ||
| 71 | tbh | United States, Oakland, California | October 16, 2017 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | CEO Nikita Bier, CTO Erik Hazzard, Kyle Zaragoza, Nicolas Ducdodon | — | — | [88] |
| 72 | Confirm | United States, Boston, Massachusetts | January 23, 2018 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Bob Geiman, Ralph Rodriguez, Walt Doyle | — | — | [89] |
| 73 | Bloomsbury AI | ，London | 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 | United States, Ogden, Utah | August 13, 2018 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Randall Bennett, Justin Carter, Pauli Ojala, Hassan Salahuddin | Y Combinator | — | [92] |
| 76 | Dreambit | United States, Seattle, Washington | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Eli Shlizerman | University of Washington | Reality Labs | [93] | |
| 77 | Chainspace | , London | — | George Danezis, Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino | University College London | Facebook Blockchain | [94] | ||
| 78 | GrokStyle | United States, San Francisco, California | February 8, 2019 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Kavita Bala, Sean Bell | — | — | [95] |
| 79 | Servicefriend | Israel, Tel Aviv | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | Ido Arad, Shahar Ben Ami | — | Novi | [96] | |
| 80 | CTRL-labs | United States, New York City, New York | data-sort-value="750,000,000" | undisclosed, but reportedly between $500 million and $1 billion | Thomas Reardon, Patrick Kaifosh | — | Reality Labs | [97] | |
| 81 | Packagd | United States, San Francisco, California | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | Facebook Marketplace | [98] | |
| 82 | Beat Games |  Czech Republic, Prague | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [99] | |
| 83 | PlayGiga |  Spain, Madrid | 70,000,000 | — | — | — | [100] [101] | ||
| 84 | Sanzaru Games | United States, Foster City, California | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [102] | |
| 85 | Scape Technologies | , London | ~40,000,000 | — | — | Reality Labs | [103] | ||
| 86 | Giphy | United States, San Francisco, New York | May 15, 2020 | 400,000,000 | — | — | [104] [105] | ||
| 87 | Mapillary | , Malmö | June 18, 2020 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | — | [106] |
| 88 | Ready at Dawn | United States, Irvine, California | June 22, 2020 | data-sort-value="0" | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | |
| 89 | Lemnis Technologies |  Singapore, Singapore | September 18, 2020 | undisclosed | Pierre-Yves Laffont | — | Reality Labs | [107] | |
| 90 | Kustomer | United States, New York, New York | November 30, 2020 | 1,000,000,000 | — | — | — | [108] | |
| 91 | Downpour Interactive | United States, San Francisco, California | April 30, 2021 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [109] | |
| 92 | Unit 2 Games | , Leamington Spa | June 4, 2021 | undisclosed | — | — | Facebook Gaming | [110] | |
| 93 | BigBox VR | United States, Seattle, Washington | June 11, 2021 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [111] | |
| 94 | AI.Reverie | United States, New York, NY, New York | October 11, 2021 | undisclosed | — | — | — | [112] | |
| 95 | Within | United States, Los Angeles, California | October 29, 2021 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | [113] | |
| 96 | Twisted Pixel Games | United States | November 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 | undisclosed | — | — | — | [116] | ||
| 99 | Armature Studio | United States | October 11, 2022 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | ||
| 100 | Camouflaj | United States | October 11, 2022 | undisclosed | — | — | Oculus Studio | ||
| 101 | XDP Flux |  Portugal | April 12, 2024 | ~100,000,000 | Tomás Almeida, Lucas Bertoncin | - | Flux |