# Instagram: Computer Software, Menlo Park

> Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.

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# Instagram

Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.

Listed

Computer Software Menlo Park

Company summary

- **Founded:** 2010 16 years old
- **Team:** 251 201 to 1,000 people
- **Funding reported:** - none reported
- **Last round:** - date not reported

How sure we are

- 1 **Listed** We know it exists and what it does
- 2 **Funding reported** A company dataset reports a raise
- 3 **Observed** A filing or a dated announcement confirms a round

No round for Instagram has been confirmed by a filing or an announcement yet, so nothing here counts toward an investor's record. [How we decide](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)

## How it ended, so far

Exit

Exit Buyer Price When

Acquired [Facebook](https://millionrounds.com/fund/facebook) $1.0B Apr 2012

## The book about them

Reading

- No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram Sarah Frier · 2020 4.10 from 11,082 ratings on Goodreads About the book Award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals an inside, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at how Instagram defied the odds to become one of the most culturally defining apps of the decade. Since its creation in 2010, Instagram’s fun and simple interface has captured our… On AmazonListen on Audible
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## Computer Software in the same market

Startups like it

- [**Ensighten** Menlo Park · founded 2009 *Raised*](https://millionrounds.com/company/ensighten)
- [**Persado** New York · founded 2012 *Raised*](https://millionrounds.com/company/persado)
- [**Electric Imp** San Francisco · founded 2011 *Raised*](https://millionrounds.com/company/electric-imp)
- [**Crimson Hexagon** Boston · founded 2007 *Raised*](https://millionrounds.com/company/crimson-hexagon)
- [**MyVR** San Francisco · founded 2011 *Raised*](https://millionrounds.com/company/myvr)
- [**qoo10.jp** Minato · founded 2010](https://millionrounds.com/startup/qoo10-jp)
- [**Origami Labs** Tokyo · founded 2011](https://millionrounds.com/startup/origami-labs)
- [**Nyle** 品川区 · founded 2007](https://millionrounds.com/startup/nyle)

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