Comments on: $100 Million Valuation For Geni

By: Deal Radar 2008: Geni - Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Deal Radar 2008: Geni - Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:58:37 +0000

[...] March 2007, during a $10 million second round of financing from Charles River Ventures, geni was valued at $100 million. This 10x increase in valuation was when the company was just seven weeks old. Previously, the [...]

By: Isn’t Family Important? » position:relative - a Web and Now blog

Isn’t Family Important? » position:relative - a Web and Now blog — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:29:44 +0000

[...] There is an article on TechCrunch about Geni getting a $100 Million Valuation! [...]

By: Private BuyOut Of Ancestry.com For $300+ Million

Private BuyOut Of Ancestry.com For $300+ Million — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:12:15 +0000

[...] last round of financing valued the company at $100 million. But none of those competing sites, or even all of those sites aggregated, have caused any [...]

By: How Much Is The Huffington Post Worth?

How Much Is The Huffington Post Worth? — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:01:56 +0000

[...] networking site Geni got a $100-million valuation when it raised its second round of $10 million earlier this year. It is arguable that a media company like the Huffington Post would command a lower valuation [...]

By: James Seng’s Blog : Blog Archive : Visit to Geni

James Seng’s Blog : Blog Archive : Visit to Geni — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:24:47 +0000

[...] first time I come across Geni was on Techcrunch when it amazed everyone with a US$100M for a 7-weeks old company. They are founded by a bunch of [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Verwandt.de: Des allemands clonent de Geni

TechCrunch en français » Verwandt.de: Des allemands clonent de Geni — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:56:57 +0000

[...] Verwandt semble avoir aussi la recette du succès de Geni. Ils ont déjà 1.5 millions de profiles en deux mois d’activité; contre 5 millions pour Geni. Ils ont également levé pas mal de fonds grâce certainement à la valeur estimée de Geni qui approche les $100 millions. [...]

By: Found History » Geni

Found History » Geni — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:02:43 +0000

[...] Update (3/6/07): Just two months after it first grabbed the headlines, TechCrunch is now reporting that Geni is worth $100 million and boasts more than 100,000 registered users. [...]

By: Geni.com - Genealogy done 2.0 at mykaroshi

Geni.com - Genealogy done 2.0 at mykaroshi — Fri, 18 May 2007 08:05:11 +0000

[...] to a TechCrunch article Geni.com raised $10M in a second round of funding with a post-money valuation of $100M. Currently [...]

By: e5k | Scribd au top, rumeurs d’investissements

e5k | Scribd au top, rumeurs d’investissements — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:39:07 +0000

[...] valeur évoquée serait de plus 10 millions de dollars ce qui nous parait assez elevé, bien que la tendance pour les entrepreneurs soit de saisir l’opportunité de prendre beaucoup d’argent quand [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Scribd au top, rumeurs d’investissements

TechCrunch en français » Scribd au top, rumeurs d’investissements — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:23:24 +0000

By: Scribd Rocking Along, Rumored Financing

Scribd Rocking Along, Rumored Financing — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:32:44 +0000

[...] it will close next week. The rumored valuation of more than $10 million is very high, although the current trend is for entrepreneurs to take big money when it’s [...]

By: Carrero

Carrero — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:53:14 +0000

Árboles Genealógicos en Internet…

A través de Calacanis y furilo he conocido de la existencia el proyecto web Geni.com, un sitio web donde puedes crearte un completo árbol genealógico, y convertirlo en una red social familiar, donde cada familiar con email puede ser editar y actuali…

By: Teléfonos Móviles

Teléfonos Móviles — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:27:36 +0000

This is so exiting. people can not imagine how important this will be for the online future. There will be times when a familily member will not even remember that you exist and today we will be sorprise how cool it would be to find our forgotten family members. It will be more amazing if they add google maps so that we can see exactly their physical location.

By: Evorgleb

Evorgleb — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:04:22 +0000

Geni.com is such a great idea! I just did a blog post about Geni.com over on Highbrid Nation if you want to check it out. I look forward to building my tree and maybe meeting some new family members along the way. I think the site has a great future.

By: Jean-Paul

Jean-Paul — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:05:02 +0000

My advice join: http://www.zooof.com :-). 35 Languages, amazing viral flash tree, growing step by step, launched in a private beta one month before Geni, still in the romantic ‘garage stage’. Started as an art project to unite the world in 12 familylevels! Company based in Amsterdam, so we take it easy but watch us coming!

By: Boyd Donahoo

Boyd Donahoo — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:08:02 +0000

Ref: comment #19,
The commentor is right and all of these things should be included. It ties right into what I created some years back which is a document I call “The Donahoos and Then Some”. We have a large family (when we get together there are fifty of us) and of course siblings, cousins, aunts & uncles and them some. Not everyone has the techncal equipment to store this info on so I created a four fold-out document with all the information for everyone to get in touch with each other. More important was it also made it possible for my children to get to know the rest of the family that they were not familiar with. And, you know, they use it and now we have a closer family group.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:09:24 +0000

I want to clarify my last post:

Geni keeps sending emails to my family with messages suggesting that I sent them, but I neither sent them nor requested for them to be sent.

A normal email to someone is ok. However, I find it wrong for Geni to pose emails as though they are sent by me to my family. I am no longer recommending Geni.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:02:00 +0000

They keep SPAMMING my family! I joined Geni a few weeks ago and invited my family members to join and add to our family tree. In the past few days Geni has repeately emailed my family without my consent.

I find their emailing tactics very unprofesional and disrespectful.

My advice: do NOT join Geni.

By: FooSpeak

FooSpeak — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:43:35 +0000

Family Business…

I recently spotted this article on TechCrunch that explains how Geni, a social network built on the premise of building family trees, recently raised 10M$ in financing following a 100M$ valuation. This is impressive considering that Geni has only…

By: Prashanth

Prashanth — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:10:51 +0000

i agree that Geni needs to device more new ways to generate revenue

By: Karah

Karah — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:02:59 +0000

Check http://www.myheritage.com and see what a REAL genealogy site is all about.

By: shecoder

shecoder — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:29:28 +0000

Ancestry.com is much bigger than Geni.com. And building a family tree is free. So is uploading photos, stories, docs… It’s different tree experience, because it is designed to get you to pay them for access to a huge database of actual historical records and something like five years of family trees previously uploaded to the site. I think they have stitched them together into a single tree. They are years ahead of geni. It’s actually a pretty cool site these days, with much more 2.0 feel… They don’t need $10 million investment they are so profitable, but I think they are aggresive and have hired some good people in utah and Seattle. Alexa comparison:

http://www.alexa.com/data/deta.....cestry.com

By: Amy Wilsch

Amy Wilsch — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:45:54 +0000

I’m sorry but it just to me sounds inflated that Ancestry is adding 1M trees in a few months. The site is for serious genealogy people doing research and building a tree from that (myfamily is the “fluffy” side). The $150/year price point is also prohibitive to a lot of people. I just doubt there are 1M people in the past few months paying $150 each. A tree has several branches, so is each new person /branch on the tree a new “tree”?

I’m not knocking Ancestry, I’m questioning the figures being tossed around cavalierly to make themselves look better (heck I’d do it too if it made sense and isn’t NOT true). And I see their ads about so I know they’re doing a big marketing push right now which is probably driving up figured, but still.

I don’t pay for the WSJ online so I can’t read the full article, sorry.

By: michelle hales

michelle hales — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:20:31 +0000

You don’t need to speculate about how big Ancestry.com is - they just ran it in the WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/.....jie/6month

- it’s $150MM a year

I don’t see why they are so excited about 100,000 trees. The same WSJ story says Ancestry just added 1 million trees over the last few months. So what should their valuation be - 1 billion?

By: Marcelo Calbucci

Marcelo Calbucci — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:46:52 +0000

I’m very surprised at that. Good think that Sampa.com will surpass Geni on the next few weeks in Reach (according to Alexa). How much will Sampa be worth then?

http://www.alexaholic.com/sampa.com+geni.com

Sampa is all sweat work so far.