Snap

Snap was founded in September 2011 as Snapchat Inc. by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown, and renamed Snap Inc. in September 2016. It is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SNAP since March 2017.

It builds the Snapchat camera and messaging app, the Spectacles and Specs augmented reality glasses, the Lens Studio tool for making AR Lenses, and Bitmoji. Its careers site reports 971 million monthly and 493 million daily active Snapchat users, and more than 25 million Snapchat+ subscribers.

According to Wikipedia, Snap had 5,261 employees in 2025. Its careers site lists seven offices, and engineering roles appear in more than a dozen cities, including Santa Monica, Seattle, New York, London, Paris, Vienna, Sydney and Taipei City. Specs hardware work is posted for sites such as San Diego, Eindhoven and Abingdon.