Facebook Acquisitions – The Complete List (2021)! [Infographic]
Facebook or should we say, “The Facebook,” was created by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004. Initially created solely for college students attending specific schools, it reached one million users in just 10 short months after its inception. Fifteen years later in 2020, Facebook has nearly 2 billion users! This number doesn’t even include Facebook’s acquisitions like WhatsApp and Instagram (to name a few).
During this wave of extreme growth, Mark Zuckerberg has acquired 85 companies to date. Facebook’s largest acquisition so far has been WhatsApp Messenger, which they purchased for $19 billion in February 2015. Other notable acquisitions include Instagram ($1 billion in April 2012) and Oculus Virtual Reality ($2 billion in March 2014).
Some of Facebook’s smaller purchases include the domain fb.com, which it bought for $8.5 million in November 2010 and the hosting and sharing platform Drop.io, which it bought for $10 million in October 2010. Just a few million dollars each, no big deal for Facebook, whose IPO started out at $38 per share (in May 2012), which sits at roughly $93 per share in mid/late-August 2015.
However, in January 2018, Facebook acquired confirmo.io, a Government-issued ID verification platform based in Boston, USA and during July purchased Bloomsbury AI($30,000,000) and RedKix($100,000,000). The year 2019 saw just two purchases, Chainspace and GROKSTYLE during February. CTRL-Labs with a value rumored to be between 500 Million and a Billion, Giphy for 400 Million, and Kustomer for 1 Billion Dollars are some of the big-ticket purchases made by Facebook between September 2019 and November 2020
This infographic contains the complete list of companies acquired by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg from August 2005 till date.
We will periodically be updating this as Facebook continues to make new acquisitions. There are some interesting trends such as the rise of facial recognition and virtual reality in social media that stand out from these acquisitions. We hope you enjoy it!
A big thanks to the TechWyse Team who helped to design and manage this infographic with all the acquisitions by Facebook made till 2020. Well done guys!
List of Companies Acquired by Facebook
AboutFace was acquired on August 2005 – $200 K
Parakeya was acquired on July 19, 2007
ConnectU was acquired on June 23, 2008 – $31 Million
FriendFeed was acquired on August 10, 2009 – $47.5 Million
Octazen was acquired on February 19, 2010
Divvyshot was acquired on March 2, 2010
Friendster acquired on May 13, 2010 – $40 Million
ShareGrove was acquired on May 26, 2010
Nextstop was acquired on July 8, 2010 – $2.5 Million
Chai Labs acquired on August 15, 2010 – $10 Million
Hot Potato acquired on August 20, 2010 – $10 Million
Drop.io was acquired on October 29, 2010 – $10 Million
FB.com domain name acquired on November 15, 2010 – $8.5 Million
Rel8tion acquired on January 25, 2011 – Undisclosed
BELUGA was acquired on March 2, 2011 – Undisclosed
snaptu was acquired on March 20, 2011 – $70 Million
RecRec acquired on March 24, 2011 – Undisclosed
DayTum was acquired on April 27, 2011
Sofa was acquired on June 9, 2011
MailRank was acquired on June 9, 2011
Push Pop Press acquired on August 2, 2011 – Undisclosed
Friend.ly acquired on October 10, 2011 – Undisclosed
Strobe acquired on November 8, 2011 – Undisclosed
Gowalla was acquired on December 2, 2011
Instagram was acquired on April 9, 2012 – $1 Billion
Tagtile was acquired on April 13, 2012 – Undisclosed
Glancee acquired on May 5, 2012 – Undisclosed
Lightbox.com was acquired on May 15, 2012 – Undisclosed
Karma was acquired on May 21, 2012 – Undisclosed
Face.com was acquired on June 18, 2012 – $100 Million
Spool acquired on July 14, 2012 – Undisclosed
AcrylicSoftware acquired on July 20, 2012 – Undisclosed
Threadsy was acquired on August 24, 2012 – Undisclosed
Atlas was acquired on February 28, 2013 – Less than $100 Million
Osmeta was acquired on March 2013
Hot Studio was acquired on March 14, 2013
Spaceport was acquired on April 23, 2013
Parse was acquired on April 25, 2013 – $85 Million
Monoidics was acquired on July 18, 2013
Jibbigo was acquired on August 12, 2013
Onavo was acquired on October 13, 2013
SportStream was acquired on December 17, 2013
LittleEye Labs was acquired on January 8, 2014 – $15 Million
Branch acquired on January 13, 2014 – $15 Million
WhatsApp acquired on February 19, 2014 – $19 Billion
Oculus VR was acquired on March 25, 2014 – $2 Billion
Ascenta was acquired on March 27, 2014 – $20 Million
Liverail was acquired on August 14, 2014 – $500 Million
ProtoGeo Oy was acquired on April 24, 2014 – Undisclosed
Pryte was acquired on June 2014 – Undisclosed
PrivateCore acquired on August 7, 2014 – Undisclosed
WaveGroup Sound acquired on August 26, 2014 – Undisclosed
Wit.ai was acquired on January 6, 2015 – Undisclosed
Quickfire acquired on January 8, 2015 – Undisclosed
TheFind acquired on March 14, 2015 – Undisclosed
Surreal Vision acquired on May 26, 2015 – Undisclosed
Pebbles acquired on July 16, 2015 – $60 Million
Masquerade acquired on March 9, 2016 – Undisclosed
Two Big Ears acquired on March 23, 2016 – Undisclosed
Nascent Objects acquired on September 19, 2016 – Undisclosed
Infiniled acquired on October 10, 2016 – Undisclosed
CrowdTangle acquired on November 11, 2016 – Undisclosed
Faciometrics acquired on November 16, 2016 – Undisclosed
Ozlo was acquired on July 31, 2017 – Undisclosed
Fayteq was acquired on August 2017 – Undisclosed
tbh(app) acquired on October, 2017 – Undisclosed
confirm.io acquired on January 23, 2018 – Undisclosed
Bloomsbury AI was acquired on July 2018 – $30,000.000
RedKix acquired on July 26, 2018 – $100,000,000
Vidpresso was acquired on August 13, 2018 – Undisclosed
Chainspace acquired on February 2019 – Undisclosed
GROKSTYLE acquired on February 8, 2019 – Undisclosed
Sonics acquired on March, 2019- Undisclosed
Servicefriend acquired on September, 2019 – Undisclosed
CTRL-labs acquired on September,2019 – undisclosed, but reportedly between $500 million and $1 billion
Packagd acquired on September, 2019 – Undisclosed
Beat Games acquired on November, 2019 – Undisclosed
PlayGiga was acquired on December, 2019 – $70,000,000
Sanzaru Games acquired on February 2019- Undisclosed
Scape Technologies on February 2020 – 40 Million
Giphy acquired on May, 2020 – 400 Million
Mapillary acquired on June, 2020 – undisclosed
Ready at Dawn acquired on June, 2020 – Undisclosed
Lemnis Technologies was acquired on September,2020- Undisclosed
Kustomer acquired on November, 2020- 1 Billion
The total cost of Facebook’s acquisitions to date is $ 23,360,700,000. And that’s just from the acquisition costs they disclosed!
Facebook is a perfect example of a company that has more buying power than entire nations.
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