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The world's leading free instant messaging service

Menlo Park, United StatesFounded 2009Telecom
Valuation $10–50B Last recorded · 2026
Revenue $1–5B Latest reported FY
Headcount 5–10k Current team size
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At a glance

Founded
2009
Headquarters
Menlo Park, United States
Sector
Telecom
Power Law
Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier

Research & analysis

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News Meta buys Swedish AI startup Stilla.ai to power WhatsApp commerce agents Sep 9, 2026 News Fambot raises $3.5M pre-seed for its AI family logistics assistant Sep 1, 2026 News Félix raises $200M to turn WhatsApp remittances into loans and savings Sep 1, 2026

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Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning WhatsApp.

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Investors

1 investor on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A1 investor entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 5,616 incl. 30 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 6 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former WhatsApp employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

MaximaEst. 2024
ASAkshaya SrivatsaUnited States
Signal score91
ParallelEst. 2024
Paul LafforgueFrance
Signal score88
CrossmintEst. 2021
Alfonso Gómez-Jordana MañasUnited States
Signal score87
Cleva TechnologiesEst. 2023
TATolu AlabiUnited States
Signal score87
Oyster TechnologiesEst. 2021
Vic YehUnited States
Signal score84
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
64 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States44.8%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom16.1%
🇮🇳 India7.6%
🇵🇰 Pakistan4.7%
🇮🇪 Ireland3.8%
Top 5 of 64 shown
Web traffic by country
3.6B monthly visits
across markets
🇧🇷 Brazil18.3%
🇮🇳 India16.8%
🇮🇩 Indonesia6.8%
🇲🇽 Mexico4.4%
🇨🇴 Colombia3.9%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$2.4B

6,041 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Market sentiment

Posts on X, past 7 days

An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about WhatsApp on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.

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

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