1000Memories

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1000Memories
Company type Private
Founded2010;16 years ago (2010)
Founders
  • Rudy Adler
  • Jonathan Good
  • Brett Huneycutt
Defunct2013 (2013)
FateAcquired by Ancestry.com
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
Website 1000memories.com

1000Memories was a website that let people organize, share, and discover old photos and memories and to set up family trees. [1] It was shut down in late 2013 after an acquisition by Ancestry.com. [2]

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History

The company was based out of San Francisco, California, and was founded in 2010 after co-founders Brett Huneycutt and Jonathan Good left McKinsey, and co-founder Rudy Adler left Wieden+Kennedy. Huneycutt and Adler met in elementary school and had previously co-founded the Border Film Project. Huneycutt and Good met as Rhodes Scholars. [3]

1000Memories was originally funded by Y Combinator, and has received $2.5 million in funding from Greylock Partners. Additional investors included Paul Buchheit, Keith Rabois, Ron Conway, Caterina Fake, Mike Maples, and Chris Sacca, among others. [4]

In the fall of 2012, 1000Memories was acquired by Ancestry.com for an undisclosed sum. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Jason Kincaid (September 27, 2011). "1000memories Expands Beyond Digital Memorials, Becomes A Facebook For The Past". TechCrunch . Archived from the original on November 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ Rudy Adler (October 3, 2012). "Ancestry.com acquires 1000memories". 1000memories.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ Wade Roush (August 16, 2010). "1000Memories Confronts Death by Celebrating Lives". Xconomy . Archived from the original on February 9, 2013.
  4. ↑ Audrey Watters (February 16, 2011). "Funding for 1000Memories - A Nod to the Power of Digital Memories". Readwriteweb.com . Archived from the original on February 23, 2011.
  5. ↑ Sarah Perez (October 3, 2012). "Ancestry.com Acquires Photo Digitization And Sharing Service 1000memories". TechCrunch . Archived from the original on October 6, 2013.


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