Wikigenia gets $1.5M funding
By Vivek Puri | August 31st, 2006 at 02:43 pm ET
David Sacks, former COO of Paypal and Alan Braverman Xoom co-founder have secured $1.5M funding for their new venture Wikigenia. Wikigenia is a West Hollywood, CA-based genealogy website. Wikigenia aims at providing wiki based platform in a area dominated by Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com. This a Series A round for Wikigenia funded by the Founders Fund. No updates on the actual site url, and wikigenia.com shows a godaddy landing page.
on June 20th, 2007 at 3:22 am
Hi, Vivek Puri, I believe this site now is called Geni (http://geni.com/), it’s great of you to have noticed it at its early days! what do you think of it now?
on June 20th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Ah, that’s news for me. I didn’t realize you both were same. Also Geni never briefed me on it’s launch, so i might have missed the details. Anyway, email me and we will talk.