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MyHeritage
Leading global discovery platform for exploring family history, uncovering ethnic origins, finding new relatives, and gaining health insights
About MyHeritage
MyHeritage operates in the genealogy and genetic testing market, providing services that enable users to create detailed family trees, take DNA tests for ancestry and genetic insights, and access a vast database of 15.7 billion historical records. The company serves a diverse clientele ranging from amateur family historians to professional genealogists. MyHeritage's business model is primarily subscription-based, offering various tiers of access to its extensive records and advanced features. Additionally, the company generates revenue through the sale of DNA testing kits, which provide users with detailed ethnic backgrounds and potential relative matches. The platform is designed to be user-friendly, allowing seamless synchronization across devices, ensuring that users can research their family history anytime and anywhere. By leveraging advanced technology and a vast data repository, MyHeritage aims to make genealogy research accessible and engaging for everyone. Keywords: genealogy, family tree, DNA testing, ancestry, historical records, subscription-based, ethnic background, genetic insights, user-friendly, data repository.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Status
- Acquired
- Founded
- 2003
- Headquarters
- Or Yehuda, Israel
- Employees
- 551
- Open positions
- 8
- Dealroom signal
- 71.6/100
- Industry
- Health
- Sub-industry
- BioTechnology, Health Platform, Streaming
- Sector
- Biotech & Life Sciences, Testing, Matchmaking, Content, Content Management, Lifestyle, Biotechnology, DNA
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b, b2c
- Investment activity
- 6 companies, latest Sep 2024
- Capital deployed
- —
- Preferred round
- ACQUISITION
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUYOUT✓Exit | Feb 2021 | $600M | $600M | Francisco Partners | ↗ |
| LATE VC✓Equity / VC | Dec 2017 | $0 | — | Vintage Investment Partners | — |
Financials
Revenue, earnings and other financial measures where available. Years marked “E” are estimates.
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for MyHeritage is 12M monthly website visits, up 9.1% over the last three months. MyHeritage's team grew 1.5% over the past year.
Open positions
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Investments and acquisitions
Recent portfolio relationships for companies that also act as investors or acquirers.
MesAieux.comCanada
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FilaeParis, FrancePlatform allows users to easily build their family tree from digitalized archives, transcribed and indexed in a unique search engine
$18Mvaluation
Legacy Family TreeSurprise, United StatesLegacy Family Tree, makers of the popular genealogy desktop software
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GeniWest Hollywood, United StatesFamily Tree & Family History at Geni.com
$20Mvaluation
Bliscy.plWarsaw, Poland
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Kindo NetworkLondon, United KingdomInternationally-focused web-based family networking platform that spans generations
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A5 investors entered at this stage
Yuval Rakavy
Mosaic Ventures
Aviv Raiz
Accel
LocalGlobe
Series B and later4 investors entered at this stage
Index Ventures
Bessemer Venture Partners
Vintage Investment Partners
Francisco Partners
Other known investors5 additional known investors
David Sacks
Gigi Levy-Weiss
Israel Secondary Fund
NFX
Simon Levene
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
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team presence
Market sentiment
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