List of companies acquired by Facebook

Anass Haijeb
4 min readJun 17, 2020

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Most important acquisition

FB CEO — Mark Zuckerberg speaking at F8 summit in San Francisco

This list is intended to be a supportive document for the research on The Smart Cities

· AboutFace acquired on August 2005 — $200 K

· Parakeya acquired on July 19, 2007 — Undisclosed

· ConnectU acquired on June 23, 2008 — $31 Million

· FriendFeed acquired on August 10, 2009 — $47.5 Million

· Octazen acquired on February 19, 2010 — Undisclosed

· Divvyshot acquired on March 2, 2010 — Undisclosed

· Friendster acquired on May 13, 2010 — $40 Million

· ShareGrove acquired on May 26, 2010 — Undisclosed

· Nextstop 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 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 acquired on March 2, 2011 — Undisclosed

· snaptu acquired on March 20, 2011 — $70 Million

· RecRec acquired on March 24, 2011 — Undisclosed

· DayTum acquired on April 27, 2011 — Undisclosed

· Sofa acquired on June 9, 2011 — Undisclosed

· MailRank acquired on June 9, 2011 — Undisclosed

· 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 acquired on December 2, 2011 — Undisclosed

· Instagram acquired on April 9, 2012 — $1 Billion

· Tagtile acquired on April 13, 2012 — Undisclosed

· Glancee acquired on May 5, 2012 — Undisclosed

· Lightbox.com acquired on May 15, 2012 — Undisclosed

· Karma acquired on May 21, 2012 — Undisclosed

· Face.com acquired on June 18, 2012 — $100 Million

· Spool acquired on July 14, 2012 — Undisclosed

· Acrylic Software acquired on July 20, 2012 — Undisclosed

· Threadsy acquired on August 24, 2012 — Undisclosed

· Atlas acquired on February 28, 2013 — Less than $100 Million

· Osmeta acquired on March 2013 — Undisclosed

· Hot Studio acquired on March 14, 2013 — Undisclosed

· Spaceport acquired on April 23, 2013 — Undisclosed

· Parse acquired on April 25, 2013 — $85 Million

· Monoidics acquired on July 18, 2013 — Undisclosed

· Jibbigo acquired on August 12, 2013 — Undisclosed

· Onavo acquired on October 13, 2013 — Undisclosed

· SportStream acquired on December 17, 2013

· Little Eye Labs 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 acquired on March 25, 2014 — $2 Billion

· Ascenta acquired on March 27, 2014 — $20 Million

· Liverail acquired on August 14, 2014 — $500 Million

· ProtoGeo Oy acquired on April 24, 2014 — Undisclosed

· Pryte acquired on June 2014 — Undisclosed

· PrivateCore acquired on August 7, 2014 — Undisclosed

· WaveGroup Sound acquired on August 26, 2014 — Undisclosed

· Wit.ai 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 acquired on July 31, 2017 — Undisclosed

· Fayteq acquired on August 2017 — Undisclosed

· tbh(app) acquired on October 2017 — Undisclosed

· confirm.io acquired on January 23, 2018 — Undisclosed

· Bloomsbury AI acquired on July 2018 — $30 Million

· RedKix acquired on July 26, 2018 — $100 Million

· Vidpresso acquired on August 13, 2018 — Undisclosed

· Chainspace acquired on February 2019 — Undisclosed

· GROKSTYLE acquired on February 8, 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 acquired on December 2019 — $70Million

The total cost of Facebook’s acquisitions to date is $ 23,360,700,000. Acquisition costs disclosed.

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