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Intelius company history timeline

2003

Intelius was founded in 2003 by six former Infospace executives: Naveen Jain, Kevin Marcus, Niraj Shah, Ed Petersen, Chandan Chauhan and John Arnold.

2006

On December 5, 2006, Intelius acquired Bothell, Washington-based IntelliSense Corporation, a background check, fingerprinting and drug screening company.

2009

On April 30, 2009, Intelius acquired Spock, a people-oriented search engine.

2011

In November 2011, Intelius purchased the Facebook genealogy app Family Builder.

2012

In 2012, Intelius was renamed "inome" to serve as the corporate umbrella, and the Intelius name was given to the division focusing on background checks.

2015

On July 1, 2015, Intelius was acquired by private equity firm H.I.G. Capital.

As part of the transaction, Abani Heller replaced Jain as the company's CEO. On August 12, 2015, PeopleConnect Holdings Inc., bought the social media business Classmates.com for $30 million.

By 2015, inome was doing business once again as Intelius.

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Founded
2003
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Headquarters
Bellevue, WA
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Founders
Naveen Jain,Paul T. Cook,Chandan S. Chauhan,Niraj Shah
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