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