Geni Financing Announcement
Geni is pleased to announce that it has raised $10 million in additional financing from venture capital firm Charles River Ventures (CRV). George Zachary of CRV will join the board of Geni. We will use the financing to expand our product development efforts.
Suggestion: an easy way to collapse/expand part of a tree, in the same way as you can collapse part of a mindmap (such as MindManager).
This helps tremendously in navigation.
Posted by: Geni in a bottle | March 07, 2007 at 11:40 AM
This is all very nice, but if the advertising idea doesn't go well, and you ever shut down operations, what kind of commitment does Geni have to the users and their data? Will you agree to give a warning, and means to download the data?
Posted by: Editt | March 07, 2007 at 03:48 PM
many congrats on the investment. read a post about geni on mark seremet's blog, and out of curiosity, just pop in and check you guys out. well done, folks
Posted by: zhen sun | March 07, 2007 at 04:24 PM
Congratulations on your Series B funding. You deserve it!
Posted by: Steve | March 07, 2007 at 05:55 PM
There are MANY errors in the relationships of my FAMILY on the FILE column. For instance : My Father is listed as my Father but he is also listed as his own BROTHER...A NIECE is listed as a 1st.. Cousin once removed . there should be a way that we can correct such errors. I thought that when they were put in on the TREE they would correct themselves, not so. HELP
Posted by: Leah M. Moore | March 07, 2007 at 07:53 PM
There are some interesting facts like, for example, the origin of the family which can be of interest to all the family members. Is there anyway to post such comments so that it is available to all members?
Posted by: Chembolli Sukumaran | March 08, 2007 at 02:53 AM
Hey! That's great news! Congrats to all!
Posted by: David | March 09, 2007 at 10:23 AM
Good stuff! Love the service. What I miss is some kind of visual clue of who are alive/deceased in the tree. It's hard to keep track and update the way it is now.
So if you could use a couple of dollars on that I would appreciate it!
Posted by: Øyvind Østmo | March 10, 2007 at 06:08 AM
Great news, now you can take away those Google AdSense banners!
It has been long proven that advertising on 'social' sites doesn't work. I would be happy to pay for a banner-free service. And I do consider alternatives if you won't remove the advertising.
Posted by: Johan | March 11, 2007 at 01:10 PM
Congrats, fellas. VC is certainly awesome.
Posted by: Grant | March 12, 2007 at 10:34 PM