![]() We hope you enjoy it!Ī big thanks to the TechWyse Team, who helped to design and manage this infographic with all the acquisitions by Facebook made until 2022. We will periodically be updating this as Facebook continues to make new acquisitions. This infographic contains the complete list of companies acquired by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg from August 2005 till date. List of Companies Acquired by FacebookĬurious to see the companies owned by Facebook till 2021? Facebook has not disclosed the cost at which these acquisitions were done. 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.Ģ021 saw Facebook acquiring Downpour Interactive, Unit 2 Games, BigBox VR, AI.Reverie and Within. The year 2019 saw just two purchases, Chainspace, and GROKSTYLE, during February. 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). Just a few million dollars each, which is no big deal for Facebook, whose IPO started out at $38 per share (in May 2012), and sits at roughly $93 per share in mid/late-August 2015. 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 purchased for $10 million in October 2010. ![]() Other notable acquisitions include Instagram (purchased for $1 billion in April 2012) and Oculus Virtual Reality (purchased for $2 billion in March 2014). Facebook’s largest acquisition has been WhatsApp Messenger, which they purchased for $19 billion in February 2015. Eighteen years later, in 2022, Facebook (now named Meta) has nearly 2.9 billion monthly users! This number doesn’t even include Facebook’s acquisitions like WhatsApp and Instagram (to name a few).ĭuring this wave of extreme growth, Mark Zuckerberg has acquired 94 companies to date. ![]() Initially created solely for college students attending specific schools, it reached one million users in just ten short months after its inception. Facebook, or should we say, “The Facebook,” was launched by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004.
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