# |
Acquisition date |
Company |
Business |
Location |
Value (USD) |
Related to |
Used as / Integrated with |
Talent acquired |
Refs |
1 |
000000002005-08-23-0000August 23, 2005 |
facebook.com domain name |
AboutFace |
USA, Boston |
000000200000 !$200,000 |
— |
name change from Thefacebook.com |
— |
[3][4] |
2 |
000000002007-07-19-0000July 19, 2007 |
Parakey |
Offline applications/Web desktop |
USA, Mountain View, CA |
|
Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital |
Facebook Mobile |
Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt |
[5] |
3 |
000000002008-06-23-0000June 23, 2008 |
ConnectU |
Social networking |
USA, Cambridge, MA |
000031000000 !$31,000,000 |
i2Hub |
(Court settlement) |
None |
[6][7] |
4 |
000000002009-08-10-0000August 10, 2009 |
FriendFeed |
Social networking aggregator |
USA, Mountain View, CA |
000047500000 !$47,500,000 |
Benchmark Capital, ex-Google |
|
Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh, 8 others |
[8] |
5 |
000000002010-02-19-0000February 19, 2010 |
Octazen |
Contact importer |
Malaysia, Taman Melawati, Kuala Lumpur |
|
|
Friend Finder |
2 engineers (remote workers) |
[9] |
6 |
000000002010-03-02-0000March 2, 2010 |
Divvyshot |
Photo management |
USA, San Francisco |
|
Y Combinator, AngelList |
Facebook Photos |
Sam Odio, Paul Carduner |
[10] |
7 |
000000002010-05-13-0000May 13, 2010 |
Friendster patents |
Intellectual property/patents |
USA, Mountain View, CA / Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur |
000040000000 !$40,000,000 |
|
|
None |
[11] |
8 |
000000002010-05-26-0000May 26, 2010 |
ShareGrove |
Private conversations/Forums |
USA, San Mateo, CA |
|
Elm Street Ventures |
Facebook Groups |
Kent Libbey, Adam Wolff |
[12] |
9 |
000000002010-07-08-0000July 8, 2010 |
Nextstop |
Travel recommendations |
USA, San Francisco |
000002500000 !$2,500,000 |
ex-Google |
|
Charles Lin, Carl Sjogreen, Adrian Graham |
[13] |
10 |
000000002010-08-15-0000August 15, 2010 |
Chai Labs |
Internet applications |
USA, Mountain View, CA |
000010000000 !$10,000,000 |
Merus Capital, ex-Google |
|
Gokul Rajaram, Giri Rajaram, others |
[14] |
11 |
000000002010-08-20-0000August 20, 2010 |
Hot Potato |
Check-ins/status updates |
USA, Brooklyn |
000010000000 !~$10,000,000 |
RRE Ventures |
Facebook Places |
Saadiq Rodgers-King, Justin Shaffer, 6 others |
[15] |
12 |
000000002010-10-29-0000October 29, 2010 |
Drop.io |
File hosting and sharing |
USA, Dumbo, Brooklyn |
000010000000 !~$10,000,000 |
RRE Ventures |
|
Sam Lessin |
[16] |
13 |
000000002010-11-15-0000November 15, 2010 |
FB.com domain name |
American Farm Bureau Federation |
USA, Washington, D.C. |
000008500000 !$8,500,000 |
— |
— |
— |
[17] |
14 |
000000002011-01-25-0000January 25, 2011 |
Rel8tion |
Mobile advertising |
USA, Seattle |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
Peter Wilson |
[18] |
15 |
000000002011-03-02-0000March 2, 2011 |
Beluga |
Group messaging |
USA, Palo Alto, CA |
0 !undisclosed |
|
Facebook Messenger |
Jonathan Perlow, Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport |
[19] |
16 |
000000002011-03-20-0000March 20, 2011 |
Snaptu |
Mobile app developer |
Israel |
000070000000 !$70,000,000 |
|
Mobile |
|
[20] |
17 |
000000002011-03-24-0000March 24, 2011 |
RecRec |
Computer vision |
USA, San Francisco |
0 !undisclosed |
Dogpatch Labs |
|
|
[21] |
18 |
000000002011-04-27-0000April 27, 2011 |
DayTum |
Information graphics |
USA, SoHo, New York City |
|
|
|
Nicholas Felton, Ryan Case |
[22] |
19 |
000000002011-06-09-0000June 9, 2011 |
Sofa |
Software design |
Netherlands, Amsterdam |
|
|
|
Koen Bok, Dirk Stoop, Jasper Hauser, Hugo van Heuven, Jorn van Dijk |
[23] |
20 |
000000002011-06-09-0000June 9, 2011 |
MailRank |
Email prioritization |
USA, New York |
|
|
|
Bryan O’Sullivan and Bethanye McKinney Blount |
[24] |
21 |
000000002011-08-02-0000August 2, 2011 |
Push Pop Press |
Digital publishing |
|
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
Co-founders Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris |
[25][26][27] |
22 |
000000002011-10-10-0000October 10, 2011 |
Friend.ly |
Social casual Q&A service app |
USA, Mountain View, California |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
|
[28][29][30] |
23 |
000000002011-11-08-0000November 8, 2011 |
Strobe |
HTML5 mobile apps, SproutCore |
USA, San Francisco |
0 !undisclosed |
|
Mobile engineering team |
Founder and CEO Charles Jolley, other Strobe employees |
[31][32] |
24 |
000000002011-12-02-0000December 2, 2011 |
Gowalla |
Location Based Service |
USA, Austin |
|
|
|
|
|
25 |
000000002012-04-09-0000April 9, 2012 |
Instagram |
Photo sharing |
USA, San Francisco |
001000000000 !$1,000,000,000 |
|
|
|
|
26 |
000000002012-04-13-0000April 13, 2012 |
Tagtile |
Customer loyalty app |
USA, San Francisco, CA |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
Tagtile's founders |
[33][34] |
27 |
000000002012-05-05-0000May 5, 2012 |
Glancee |
Social discovery platform |
USA, San Francisco |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
Three co-founders |
[35][36] |
28 |
000000002012-05-15-0000May 15, 2012 |
Lightbox.com |
Photo sharing |
UK, London |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
Thai Tran, Nilesh Patel, Five employees |
[37] |
29 |
000000002012-05-21-0000May 21, 2012 |
Karma |
Social gifting |
USA |
0 !undisclosed |
|
Facebook Gifts |
Lee Linden, Ben Lewis |
[38] |
30 |
000000002012-06-18-0000June 18, 2012 |
Face.com |
Face recognition platform |
Israel, Tel Aviv |
000100000000 !$100,000,000 |
|
|
|
[39][40] |
31 |
000000002012-07-14-0000July 14, 2012 |
Spool |
Mobile bookmarking and sharing content |
USA, San Francisco |
0 !undisclosed |
|
Mobile engineering team |
Avichal Garg, Curtis Spencer, Six employees |
[41] |
32 |
000000002012-07-20-0000July 20, 2012 |
Acrylic Software |
RSS app Pulp and secure database app Wallet |
Canada, Vancouver |
0 !undisclosed |
|
Facebook's design team |
Two employees |
[42] |
33 |
000000002012-08-24-0000August 24, 2012 |
Threadsy |
Threadsy is a social aggregator, Maker of social marketing tool Swaylo |
USA, San Francisco |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
|
[43] |
34 |
000000002013-02-28-0000February 28, 2013 |
Atlas |
Atlas advertiser suite |
USA, Seattle, Washington |
000099999999 !less than $100,000,000 |
|
|
|
[44] |
35 |
000000002013-03-01-0000March 2013 |
osmeta |
Mobile software |
USA, Mountain View, CA |
|
|
|
17 engineers |
[45] |
36 |
000000002013-03-14-0000March 14, 2013 |
Hot Studio |
Design agency |
USA, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA |
|
|
|
|
[46] |
37 |
000000002013-04-23-0000April 23, 2013 |
Spaceport |
Cross-platform game framework |
|
|
|
|
|
[47] |
38 |
000000002013-04-25-0000April 25, 2013 |
Parse |
Mobile app backends |
USA, San Francisco, CA |
000085000000 !$85,000,000 |
|
|
|
[48] |
39 |
000000002013-07-18-0000July 18, 2013 |
Monoidics |
Automatic verification software |
UK, London |
|
|
|
|
[49] |
40 |
000000002013-08-12-0000August 12, 2013 |
Jibbigo |
Speech translation app |
|
|
|
|
|
[50] |
41 |
000000002013-10-13-0000October 13, 2013 |
Onavo |
Mobile analytics |
Israel |
|
|
|
|
[51] |
42 |
000000002013-12-17-0000December 17, 2013 |
SportStream |
Sports conversation analysis |
USA, San Francisco, CA |
|
|
|
|
[52] |
43 |
000000002014-01-08-0000January 8, 2014 |
Little Eye Labs |
Performance analysis and monitoring tools for Android |
India, Bangalore, India |
000015000000 !$15,000,000[53] |
|
|
|
[54] |
44 |
000000002014-01-13-0000January 13, 2014 |
Branch |
Web conversation platform |
USA, New York, NY |
000015000000 !$15,000,000 |
|
|
|
[55] |
45 |
000000002014-02-19-0000February 19, 2014 |
WhatsApp |
Mobile instant messaging |
USA, Mountain View, CA |
19000000000 !$19,000,000,000 |
|
|
Co-founder and CEO Jan Koum |
[56] |
46 |
000000002014-03-25-0000March 25, 2014 |
Oculus VR |
Virtual reality technology |
USA, Irvine, CA |
02000000000 !$2,000,000,000 |
|
|
Co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe, Engineer Chris Dycus, and CTO John D. Carmack |
[57][58] |
47 |
000000002014-03-27-0000March 27, 2014 |
Ascenta |
High-altitude UAVs |
UK, Somerset, England |
000020000000 !$20,000,000 |
|
|
|
[59] |
48 |
000000002014-04-24-0000April 24, 2014 |
ProtoGeo Oy |
Fitness tracking app Moves |
Finland, Helsinki |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
|
[60] |
49 |
000000002014-08-07-0000August 7, 2014 |
PrivateCore |
Secure Server Technology |
USA, Palo Alto, CA |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
|
[61] |
50 |
000000002014-08-14-0000August 14, 2014 |
LiveRail |
Publisher Monetization Platform |
USA, San Francisco, CA |
400000000 !$400,000,000-$500,000,000 |
|
|
|
[62] |
51 |
000000002014-08-26-0000August 26, 2014 |
WaveGroup Sound |
Sound Studio |
USA, Burlingame, CA |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
|
[63] |
52 |
000000002015-01-06-0000January 6, 2015 |
Wit.ai |
Speech recognition |
USA, Palo Alto, California |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
|
[64] |
53 |
000000002015-01-08-0000January 8, 2015 |
Quickfire |
Video Compression |
USA |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
|
[65] |
54 |
000000002015-03-14-0000March 14, 2015 |
TheFind |
Ecommerce |
USA |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
|
[66] |
55 |
000000002015-05-26-0000May 26, 2015 |
Surreal Vision |
Computer vision, augmented reality |
UK |
0 !undisclosed |
|
|
|
[67] |
56 |
000000002015-07-16-0000July 16, 2015 |
Pebbles |
Computer vision, augmented reality |
Israel |
000060000000 !$60,000,000 |
|
|
|
[68] |
57 |
000000002016-03-09-0000March 9, 2016 |
MSQRD |
Visual effects |
Belarus |
000060000000 !undisclosed |
|
|
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[69] |