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MyHeritage.com Buys OSN Group In European Expansion

Feb 2, 2010 5:00 PM

Online genealogy firm MyHeritage.com has bought up rival OSN Group, in a move that it says will propel it into the “largest international site dedicated to families on the web.” That claim is somewhat questionable, since the 530 million profiles MyHeritage will now be able to claim is still swamped…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Community, Countries, Europe, myheritage, osn group

MyHeritage Buying UK Family Tree Site Kindo

Sep 22, 2008 2:45 PM

Kindo, a genealogy 2.0 site we first wrote about in February, is being bought by online family tree giant MyHeritage. The Putney-based site, at that time, got funding from Ambient Sound Investments (ASI), the Estonian-based VC house started by some of Skype’s founding engineers. The Accelerator Group’s Saul and Robin…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, kindo, myheritage

Family Tree Site MyHeritage Gets $15 Million From Index

Sep 8, 2008 2:43 AM

Tel Aviv-based family tree site MyHeritage, which claims to be “the second largest online destination for families”, has received a $15 million (£8.36 million) second-round investment from London’s Index Ventures. The site has come out of nowhere but is now available in 25 languages, claims 25 million members, five million…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, london's index ventures, myheritage

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