Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Geni.com http://pulse2.com Sat, 26 May 2012 21:27:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Family Tree Social Network, Geni.com Raises $5 Million http://pulse2.com/2009/01/19/family-tree-social-network-genicom-raises-5-million/ http://pulse2.com/2009/01/19/family-tree-social-network-genicom-raises-5-million/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:51:31 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=10064 Continue reading →]]> Geni.com is a place to build your family tree in private or in public.  This website is also useful for those who don’t want to share their family pictures on Facebook.  Over 40 million profiles have been created thus far.  Geni.com was co-founded by David Sacks and have just raised a third round of funding.  The third round of $5 million was supplied by Charles River Ventures and The Founders Fund.

Geni’s first round of funding was $1.5 million and their second round of funding was $10 million.  This brings them to $16.5 million in total funding.  Geni’s uses advertising as one of their primary revenue sources.

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