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Websitegeni.com
Blogblog.geni.com
CategoryConsumer Web
Phone310.247.9169
Employees18
Founded6/06
DescriptionGeneology social network site

Offices
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West Hollywood, USA
9229 W. Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA, 90069
USA
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People
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David Sacks
Founder and CEO
Alan Braverman
Co-founder and CTO
George Zachary
Board
Peter Thiel
Board

Funding
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Total$16.5M
Series A, 1/07
The Founders Fund
$1.5M
Series B, 3/07
Charles River Ventures
$10M
Series C, 1/09
Charles River Ventures
The Founders Fund
$5M

Competitors
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Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, The Generations Network, Familybuilder, Cozi, Genoom

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geni, geneology, social, family, genealogy

Geni
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Geni is a social-networking website for families to explore their geneology. Geni aspires to create a family tree of the whole world.

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Added: 6/5/08

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Geni
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Websitegeni.com
Blogblog.geni.com
StageLive
Launch DateJanuary 16, 2007
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Geni is a family-oriented social networking platform organized around geneology that wil help families share both historic information and current events with one another.

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Above: Geni Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Comments

Flemming Funch - February 14, 2009 at 11:31am
It is just a shame that they're paying no attention to their user community, which right now is up in arms because of a series of broken promises and downgraded features. It seems that they've chosen to focus on low level social networking features, such as virtual gifts, at the expense of features useful to genealogists. Example: The most recent version arbitrarily cut off anything beyond 3rd cousins for all users, halving the family size of many members.
rene verhaeghe - January 11, 2009 at 10:22am
A year ago I opened a Geni page and since that time I changed my email address (rene.verhaeghe@skynet.be) into :reneverhaeghe@telenet.be. Now I want to work in it and I forgot my password. I have sent an email to you to become my password again.Please send my password to the new email address.Thanks
David Coakley - January 6, 2009 at 7:40am
Within 2 weeks nearly a dozen families connected with mine had registered and most had begun adding onto the tree. Very easy to figure out for the average person and a fantastic contribution to families everywhere.
Evorgleb - October 10, 2007 at 2:11pm
Great site. It has been very useful in plotting my family's tree. I've heard rumbling about them being able to implement some DNA records into the tree. That would be amazing.
Khurram - August 5, 2007 at 10:00pm
Whats the user base ? There are so many social networking utilities coming up that we get confused.
Toasty - July 24, 2007 at 6:24am
BEWARE of the privacy violations of this company. It's INSANE that they aren't showing any concern about their repeated releases of information. Check their forums for hundreds of their admittedly-most-active users complaining about the violations.

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  2. 100 Million Valuation for Geni (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Geni Gets Another $5 Million for Social Networking and Genealogy Site: What About Yammer? (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
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