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According to TechCrunch, MyHeritage raised about $9 million in funding back in 2005.
In December 2006, the company acquired Pearl Street Software which was the creator of family tree software (Family Tree Legends) and a family tree submission site (GenCircles) with over 160 million profiles and 400 million public records.
In 2006, MyHeritage introduced new features including facial recognition software that recognized facial features from a database of photographs to link individuals together.
Accel was part of another investment round in 2008.
In 2009, the company released a new version of their free genealogy software, Family Tree Builder, which included the ability to sync between the software and the website.
In 2010, the company acquired Germany-based OSN Group, a family tree website network with seven genealogy sites under its name.
In 2011, those numbers increased to 760 million people profiles and 56 million users after MyHeritage acquired Poland-based Bliscy.pl, another genealogy website.
In November 2012, MyHeritage acquired one of its primary competitors, Geni.com.
In 2012, MyHeritage raised $25 million.
In April 2013, MyHeritage released Family Tree Builder 7.0 which included new features like sync, Unicode, and Record Matches.
In October 2013 MyHeritage was named the most promising Israeli start-up for 2013-14 by "Globes" magazine.
In 2013, MyHeritage entered into a strategic partnership to allow FamilySearch to use its technologies.
In February 2014, the company partnered with BillionGraves to digitize and document graves and cemeteries worldwide.
In 2015, MyHeritage reached 6.3 billion historical records, 200 million photographs, 80 million registered users, and availability in 42 languages.
In 2016, it also started offering DNA testing to match users with their relatives based on genetics.
Francisco Partners first entered the burgeoning Israeli tech sector in 2016.
The company kept all of Geni's employees and operated the company as a separate brand in Los Angeles, California, and, as of 2016, MyHeritage and Geni were still separate.
In August 2017, the company acquired Millennia Corp. and its Legacy Family Tree software and Legacy webinars program.
It also announced that, as of October 2018, the total number of historical records reached over 9 billion.
Interestingly, two massive investment groups took a minority passive stake in Francisco Partners in 2018.
Also in 2018, chief science officer Yaniv Erlich received media attention for creating a family tree of 13 million people using data from Geni.com.
In April 2019, MyHeritage changed autosomal DNA microarray chip from Infinium OmniExpress chip to the Infinium GSA chip, with 642,824 markers.
On 7 September 2019, MyHeritage announced that they acquired both SNPedia and Promethease.
In 2019, to promote My Heritage, Doctor Phil used the product to learn more about his and his wife’s ancestry.
Account details of some MyHeritage users were part of a huge trove of personal details — collated from a number of breaches of several sites — that were posted for sale online in 2019.
In 2019, they raised approximately $10 billion across three funds to fuel their portfolio.
Yes, the same Blackstone who purchased Ancestry in 2020.
As of 2021, they have over $25 billion in assets under management.
MyHeritage and D-ID partner to bring photos to life with both animations and voiceTechcrunch03 Mar 2022
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| 2009 | $3.6B | 1,600 | 157 | |
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| Meta | 2004 | $164.5B | 71,970 | 7,026 |
| Optimizely | 2009 | $120.0M | 400 | 16 |
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