M&A Deal Summary

Facebook Acquires Acrylic Software

On July 20, 2012, Facebook acquired software company Acrylic Software

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Facebook’s 10th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Facebook’s 1st transaction in Canada.
  • This is Facebook’s 1st transaction in British Columbia.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-07-20
Target Acrylic Software
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Facebook
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Acrylic Software

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Acrylic Software is an independent software design studio.We specialize in creating fun, useful, and beautiful apps for Mac and iOS.

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Buyer

Facebook

Menlo Park, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 2004
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees69,329
Revenue 134.9B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Facebook's corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Entrance to Facebook's corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

Facebook is a social utility company that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family, and coworkers. Facebook develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Facebook was founded in 2004 and is based in Menlo Park, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 32 of 85
Sector (Software) 10 of 24
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 31 of 82
State (British Columbia) 1 of 1
Country (Canada) 1 of 2
Year (2012) 10 of 12
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-07-14 Blueprint Labs

Palo Alto, California, United States

Blueprint Labs allows to grabs articles, records videos, and saves images. It offers Spool, a personal Internet recorder that allows users to save multimedia content on Internet to devices such as phones, laptops, work computers, and tablets for offline access.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-08-24 Threadsy

San Francisco, California, United States

Threadsy allows people to see all of their social feeds and communication from different networks like Facebook and Twitter in one place.

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