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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

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Number	Company	Location	Acquired on	Acquired for (USD)	Talent acquired	Related to	Used as / integrated with	Ref.
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 Kieffer	—	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][62]
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	[63][64]
50	Ascenta	UK, Somerset, England	March 27, 2014	20,000,000	—	—	—	[65]
51	Salorix	USA, Palo Alto, CA	April 14, 2014	undisclosed	Santanu Bhattacharya	—	Facebook Ads
52	ProtoGeo Oy	Finland, Helsinki	April 24, 2014	undisclosed	—	—	Moves mobile app; discontinued in July 2018	[66][67][68][69]
53	PrivateCore	USA, Palo Alto, California	August 7, 2014	undisclosed	—	—	—	[70]
54	LiveRail	USA, San Francisco, California	August 14, 2014	400,000,000 - 500,000,000	—	—	—	[71]
55	WaveGroup Sound	USA, Burlingame, California	August 26, 2014	undisclosed	—	—	—	[72]
56	Wit.ai	USA, Palo Alto, California	January 6, 2015	undisclosed	—	—	—	[73]
57	Quickfire Networks	USA, San Diego, California	January 8, 2015	undisclosed	—	—	—	[74]
58	TheFind, Inc.	USA, Mountain View, California	March 14, 2015	undisclosed	—	—	—	[75]
59	Surreal Vision	UK, London, England	May 26, 2015	undisclosed	—	—	—	[76]
60	Endaga	US, Oakland, California	October 3, 2015	undisclosed	—	—	—	[77]
61	Pebbles	Israel, Kfar Saba	July 16, 2015	60,000,000	—	—	—	[78]
62	MSQRD (Masquerade)	Belarus, Minsk	March 9, 2016	undisclosed	CEO, Eugene Nevgen, Sergey Gonchar, Eugene Zatepyakin (co-founders)	—	—	[79][80]
63	Two Big Ears	UK, Scotland	May 23, 2016	undisclosed	—	—	—	[81]
64	Nascent Objects	US, California	Sep 19, 2016	undisclosed	—	—	—	[82]
65	Infiniled	Ireland, Cork	October 10, 2016	undisclosed	—	—	—
66	CrowdTangle	USA	November 11, 2016	undisclosed	—	—	—	[83][84]
67	Faciometrics	USA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	November 16, 2016	undisclosed	Fernando De la Torre	Carnegie Mellon University	—	[85]
68	Zurich Eye	Switzerland	November 2016	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus VR	[86]
69	Ozlo	USA, Palo Alto, California	July 31, 2017	undisclosed	—	—	Facebook Messenger	[87]
70	Fayteq AG	Germany	August 2017	undisclosed	—	—	Facebook Live	[88]
71	tbh	USA, Oakland, California	October 16, 2017	undisclosed	CEO Nikita Bier, CTO Erik Hazzard, Kyle Zaragoza, Nicolas Ducdodon	—	—	[89]
72	Confirm	USA, Boston, Massachusetts	January 23, 2018	undisclosed	Bob Geiman, Ralph Rodriguez, Walt Doyle	—	—	[90]
73	Bloomsbury AI	UK, London, England	July 2018	30,000,000	—	—	—	[91]
74	Redkix	Israel, Tel Aviv	July 26, 2018	100,000,000	Oudi Antebi, Roy Antebi	—	Workplace by Facebook	[92]
75	Vidpresso	USA, Ogden, Utah	August 13, 2018	undisclosed	Randall Bennett, Justin Carter, Pauli Ojala, Hassan Salahuddin	Y Combinator	—	[93]
76	Dreambit	USA, Seattle, Washington	September 2016	undisclosed	Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Eli Shlizerman	University of Washington	Reality Labs	[94]
77	Chainspace	UK, London, England	February 2019	—	George Danezis, Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino	University College London	Facebook Blockchain	[95]
78	GrokStyle	USA, San Francisco, California	February 8, 2019	undisclosed	Kavita Bala, Sean Bell	—	—	[96]
79	Servicefriend	Israel, Tel Aviv	September 2019	undisclosed	Ido Arad, Shahar Ben Ami	—	Novi	[97]
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	[98]
81	Packagd	USA, San Francisco, California	September 2019	undisclosed	—	—	Facebook Marketplace	[99]
82	Beat Games	Czech Republic, Prague	November 2019	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[100]
83	Atlas ML	UK, London, England	December 2019	undisclosed	—	—	—	[101][102]
84	PlayGiga	Spain, Madrid	December 2019	70,000,000	—	—	—	[103][104]
85	Sanzaru Games	USA, Foster City, California	February 2020	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[105]
86	Scape Technologies	UK, London, England	February 2020	~40,000,000	—	—	Reality Labs	[106]
87	Giphy	USA, San Francisco, New York	May 15, 2020	400,000,000	—	—	Instagram	[107][108]
88	Mapillary	Sweden, Malmö	June 18, 2020	undisclosed	—	—	—	[109]
89	Ready at Dawn	USA, Irvine, California	June 22, 2020	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[105]
90	Lemnis Technologies	Singapore, Singapore	September 18, 2020	undisclosed	Pierre-Yves Laffont	—	Reality Labs	[110]
91	Kustomer	USA, New York, New York	November 30, 2020	1,000,000,000	—	—	—	[111]
92	Downpour Interactive	USA, San Francisco, California	April 30, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[112]
93	Unit 2 Games	UK, Leamington Spa	June 4, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	Facebook Gaming	[113]
94	BigBox VR	USA, Seattle, Washington	June 11, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[114]
95	AI.Reverie	USA, New York, NY, New York	October 11, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	—	[115]
96	Within	USA, Los Angeles, California	October 29, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[116]
97	Twisted Pixel Games	USA	November 1, 2021	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[117]
98	Presize	Germany, Munich	April 8, 2022	~100,000,000	Leon Szeli, Tomislav Tomov	Technical University Munich	Facebook Shops, Instagram Shopping	[118]
99	Lofelt	Germany, Berlin	September 2022	undisclosed	—	—	—	[119]
100	Armature Studio	USA	October 11, 2022	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[117]
101	Camouflaj	USA	October 11, 2022	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[117]
102	Luxexcel	Netherlands	December 30, 2022	undisclosed	—	—	Oculus Studio	[120]
103	Play AI	USA	July 11, 2025	undisclosed	—	—	Meta Superintelligence Labs	[121]
104	WaveForms	USA	August 8, 2025	undisclosed	—	—	Meta Superintelligence Labs	[122]
105	Rivos	USA	September 30, 2025	undisclosed	—	—	Meta Training and Inference Accelerator	[123]
106	Limitless	USA	December 5, 2025	undisclosed	—	—	—	[124]
107	Manus AI	Singapore	December 29, 2025	>2,000,000,000	—	—	–	[125]

See also

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• List of largest mergers and acquisitions
• Lists of corporate acquisitions and mergers

References

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