Description: Snap Inc. is a publicly traded American technology company headquartered in Santa Monica, California, best known for the Snapchat camera-messaging app and a suite of augmented‑reality products and developer tools. The company’s work focuses on visual communication, AR experiences, and monetization through advertising and direct-to-consumer products. Type: Publicly traded technology company (corporation) Policies: Typically engages on technology and communications policy areas including user privacy and data protection (with emphasis on youth privacy), content moderation and platform regulation, digital advertising and ad transparency rules, competition and antitrust matters, intellectual property, augmented‑reality and hardware regulation, AI/algorithm policy and transparency, and trade/export controls affecting hardware and compute. Funding: Primarily funded by operating revenue—predominantly digital advertising on Snapchat—supplemented by subscriptions and direct‑to‑consumer hardware sales, strategic partnerships, and capital raised through public equity and debt markets. Affiliates: Evan Spiegel (co‑founder & CEO), Bobby Murphy (co‑founder & CTO), Reggie Brown (co‑founder), Benchmark (early investor), Bitmoji (acquired product), Snap Foundation, Spectacles (product line), Snap Labs, strategic partners such as Niantic and Perplexity.
