Companies
Company histories built from filings and official releases: founding, products, leadership changes, deals, fines and settlements.
11 timelines
Theranos
Theranos was a blood-testing company founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2003 that said its devices could run a wide range of tests on a few drops of blood. It raised more tha...
Boeing
Boeing began in Seattle in 1916 as Pacific Aero Products and grew into a major maker of commercial jets and a defence and space contractor. Two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2...
Meta Platforms
Meta began as Facebook, a social network launched by Mark Zuckerberg and classmates in 2004, and went public on Nasdaq in 2012. It bought Instagram and WhatsApp and renam...
Apple
Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne and went public in 1980. After Jobs returned in 1997 it introduced the iPod, iPhone and iPad, and ...
Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank, founded in 1983 and owned by SVB Financial Group, grew to about $212 billion in assets before it was closed on March 10, 2023, in what a federal judg...
Tesla
Tesla was formed in Delaware in July 2003, began delivering its Roadster sports car in 2008 and went public on Nasdaq in 2010. It expanded from electric cars into solar a...
Safaricom
Safaricom began as the mobile arm of state-owned Telkom Kenya, was licensed in 1999 and launched commercially in October 2000 with Vodafone as a major shareholder. Its M-...
OpenAI
OpenAI was announced in December 2015 as a nonprofit artificial intelligence research lab and later added a capped-profit arm that drew billions of dollars from Microsoft...
FTX
FTX was a cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang that began raising money from investors in 2019 and was based in the Bahamas. It collapsed in...
NVIDIA
NVIDIA was founded in 1993 to make 3D graphics chips for games and multimedia and listed on Nasdaq in 1999. Its graphics processors became the main hardware for training ...
Twitter / X
Twitter launched in 2006 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2013. Elon Musk agreed to buy it for $54.20 a share in April 2022, tried to terminate the deal, was ...