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eCommerce & Marketplaces · Menlo Park, United States · Founded 2004 · IPO 2012 Mag 7
The world's leading social network
Meta mafia
Startups founded by Meta alumni
Former Meta employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Wojciech ZarembaUnited States
Amjad MasadUnited States
Gabriel PereyraUnited States
Grant LaFontaineUnited States
Michael HuangUnited States
Martin RaisonFrance
Erik GoldmanUnited States
Denis YaratsUnited States
Bret TaylorUnited States
Jan KoumUnited States
Jorn van DijkNetherlands
Henri MoissinacNetherlandsGlobal footprint
Where Meta has talent and traffic
(8,878 of 154,866 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$2.5B patent portfolio · 6,043 active families
Where Meta concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Meta and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Meta's 167 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Meta appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2008–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
167 deals across Meta's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Meta deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Meta's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Meta
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Meta on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
See Meta on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.