Geni Overview
Geni is a tool for understanding and staying in touch with your family.
Geni lets you create a family tree through our fun simple interface. You can expand your tree by adding relatives' email addresses. They will be invited to join your tree and can add other relatives. Your tree will continue to grow as relatives invite other relatives.
Each family member has a profile which can be viewed...More»
Geni is a tool for understanding and staying in touch with your family.
Geni lets you create a family tree through our fun simple interface. You can expand your tree by adding relatives' email addresses. They will be invited to join your tree and can add other relatives. Your tree will continue to grow as relatives invite other relatives.
Each family member has a profile which can be viewed by clicking their name in the tree. This helps family members learn more about each other and stay in touch. Family members can also share photos and work together to build profiles for common ancestors.
Geni is private. Only the people in your family tree can see your tree and your profile. Geni will not share your personal information with third parties. We will not sell your email address or spam you. Users control which communications they would like to receive from us.«Less
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Funding
| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| 01/2007 | Series A | 1.5M | 10M | |
| 03/2007 | Series B | 10M | 100M | |
| 01/2009 | Series C | 5M | Unknown |
Products
| Name: | Geni |
| Product URL: | http://www.geni.com/ |
| Date Launched: | 01/2007 |
| Description: | Geni.com is a genealogy-related social networking website. |
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User Opinions
Bulls vs. Bears (21)
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Great start - need to work on a quicker and more integrated AJAX editing UI |
jowoco 08/28/2009 |
100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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Unlike most of their competitors, their services are free, which is more viral
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chaostheory 04/24/2008 |
83% 12 votes 10 17% 2 |
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ffunch | 02/17/2009 | |
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In my family it proved addictive to internet illiterates, very userfriendly |
johs 10/12/2008 |
67% 3 votes 2 33% 1 |
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Quantcast and Compete show steady growth over last few months
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green33 07/29/2008 |
40% 5 votes 2 60% 3 |
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New video sharing feature should increase user engagement |
dave 07/25/2008 |
75% 4 votes 3 25% 1 |
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The product has great user interface - very easy to get started
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startuper 04/28/2008 |
100% 9 votes 9 0% 0 |
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They were rumored to be valued at $100 MM |
john 05/16/2008 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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Their features do not require anyone to install software |
chaostheory 04/24/2008 |
100% 9 votes 9 0% 0 |
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Their family tree feature was revolutionary and extremely viral when it first came out |
chaostheory 04/24/2008 |
83% 6 votes 5 17% 1 |
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Everyone has a family, so the idea is universally appealing |
dave 01/10/2008 |
85% 20 votes 17 15% 3 |
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David Sacks (founder CEO) has a great track record |
dave 01/10/2008 |
88% 16 votes 14 12% 2 |
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Does not automatically inform family members of illegitimate children
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ywong137 01/28/2008 |
10% 10 votes 1 90% 9 |
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kjhsm | 04/22/2009 | |
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Geni is going to collapse within the next year |
ododod 02/14/2009 |
75% 4 votes 3 25% 1 |
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They keep removing core features and they're seriously at odds with their user community. |
ffunch 02/14/2009 |
75% 4 votes 3 25% 1 |
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Worried about privacy (the "mother's maiden name") question |
georgebounacos 07/20/2008 |
67% 3 votes 2 33% 1 |
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besides family tree all other functionality (more popularly) available elsewhere |
maafjes 06/28/2008 |
100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
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Still no public API, then again their competitors don't either |
chaostheory 04/24/2008 |
100% 2 votes 2 0% 0 |
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They have no publicly known revenue model |
chaostheory 04/24/2008 |
100% 5 votes 5 0% 0 |
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Competition offers wider range of features |
mkr2x 01/23/2008 |
33% 6 votes 2 67% 4 |
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There are lots of competitiors in this space |
dave 01/10/2008 |
76% 17 votes 13 24% 4 |
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Do people really want to socialize with their family? |
dave 01/10/2008 |
59% 17 votes 10 41% 7 |
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