MyHeritage
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| Type of business | Private |
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| Available in |
42 languages
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| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Or Yehuda and Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Founder(s) | Gilad Japhet (CEO) |
| Industry | Internet |
| Products |
Family history website Genealogy software Mobile application MyHeritage DNA Family Tree Builder |
| Employees | 370 |
| Website | www |
| Registration | Yes |
| Current status | Active |
MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform with web, mobile, and software products and services that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company MyHeritage in 2003. Users of the platform can create family trees, upload and browse through photos, and search billions of global historical records, among other features. As of 2015, the service supports 42 languages and has around 80 million users worldwide. In January 2017 it was reported that MyHeritage has 35 million family trees on its website. The company is headquartered in Or Yehuda, Israel with additional offices in Tel Aviv,Lehi, Utah, and Burbank, California.
MyHeritage was founded in 2003 by Gilad Japhet (who continues to serve as the company's CEO). Japhet started the company from his living room in the moshav of Bnei Atarot, Israel. For a long time, the company's headquarters were located in a family farmhouse in Bnei Atarot. In its infancy, MyHeritage was almost completely self-funded but had received funds from angel investors by 2005. It switched from a free service to a freemium business model.
Early on, MyHeritage required users to upload genealogical information from desktop software. The information could be viewed online, but could not be altered. In 2006, MyHeritage introduced new features including facial recognition software that recognized facial features from a database of photographs to link individuals together. In December 2006, the company acquired Pearl Street Software which was the creator of family tree software (Family Tree Legends) and a family tree submission site (GenCircles) with over 160 million profiles and 400 million public records.
By 2007, MyHeritage had 150,000 family trees, 180 million people profiles, 100 million photos, and 17.2 million users worldwide. The service was available in 17 languages. The company also began offering a new web-based feature that allowed users to upload genealogical information directly to the MyHeritage site. MyHeritage had also received a total of $9 million in investor funding, half of which had come from Accel.
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