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23andMe

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23andMe, the startup widely known as the company whose founder is the wife of Sergey Brin, has plans to make the human genome searchable. Brin, along with Google, gave 23andMe $3.9 million as part of a series A in May of 2007. The company, cleverly named after the number of paired chromosomes in humans, wants to help you understand what your genes mean by indexing them and highlighting significant findings. 23andMe will allow its clients/users to better understand their ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits. For researchers and scientist, the company could provide invaluable amounts of neatly categorized and easily searchable data.

To Web 2.0, the significance of this company lies in its ability to potentially allow Google to yet again index another facet of the world’s information. With the Biotech and Health Care industries growing rapidly, 23andMe could be Google’s entrance into these already multi-billion dollar areas.

Milestones

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• Received $13.6M in Series B funding. (6/18/09)
  Posted 6/18/09 at 3:45pm
• 23andMe — Price dropped to $399 per test. (9/8/08)
  Posted 9/19/08 at 11:41am
• Received $9M in Series A funding. (5/1/07)
  Posted 10/15/07 at 9:17am
• Brian Naughton, Product Manager added.
  Posted 10/15/07 at 10:07am
• Oliver Ryan, Recruiting Manager added.
  Posted 10/15/07 at 10:08am
• Serafim Batzoglou, Scientific Advisor added.
  Posted 10/15/07 at 10:08am
• Serge Saxonov, Director of R&D added.
  Posted 10/15/07 at 10:07am
• Jeff Mellen, Software Engineer added.
  Posted 2/29/08 at 10:40pm
• Paul Cusenza, Board added.
  Posted 10/15/07 at 10:06am
• Esther Dyson, Board added.
  Posted 10/15/07 at 9:26am
• Anne Wojcicki, Co-founder added.
  Posted 10/15/07 at 9:23am
• Linda Avey, Co-founder added.
  Posted 10/15/07 at 9:22am
• Sarah Imbach, Chief Operating Officer added.
  Posted 12/22/08 at 4:20pm
• Larry Tesler, Product Fellow added.
  Posted 12/22/08 at 4:20pm
• Patrick Chung, Board Member added.
  Posted 10/18/09 at 11:22pm

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Above: 23andMe Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 5/13/09

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Sources

1. 23andme.com [edit]
2. All In the Family: Sergey Brin Loans 23andme $10 Million And Google Ponies Up $2.6 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. 23andMe Democratizes Personal Genomics With New Analytical Platform (spittoon.23andme.com) [edit]