1000Memories

1000Memories
Company type	Privately held
Founded	2010
Founder	Rudy Adler; Jonathan Good; Brett Huneycutt;
Defunct	2013
Fate	Acquired by Ancestry.com
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States

1000Memories was a website that let people organize, share, and discover old photos and memories and to set up family trees.^[1] It was shut down in late 2013 after an acquisition by Ancestry.com.^[2]

History

The company was based out of San Francisco, California, and was founded in 2010 after co-founders Brett Huneycutt and Jonathan Good left McKinsey, and co-founder Rudy Adler left Wieden+Kennedy. Huneycutt and Adler met in elementary school and had previously co-founded the Border Film Project. Huneycutt and Good met as Rhodes Scholars.^[3]

1000Memories was originally funded by Y Combinator, and has received $2.5 million in funding from Greylock Partners. Additional investors included Paul Buchheit, Keith Rabois, Ron Conway, Caterina Fake, Mike Maples, and Chris Sacca, among others.^[4]

In the fall of 2012, 1000Memories was acquired by Ancestry.com for an undisclosed sum.^[5]

References

^ "1000memories Expands Beyond Digital Memorials, Becomes A Facebook For The Past - TechCrunch, September 27, 2011". 27 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-06.
^ Ancestry.com acquires 1000memories Archived 2013-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, 1000 Memories weblog. Retrieved 2013-10-22
^ "1000Memories Confronts Death by Celebrating Lives - Xconomy, August 16, 2010". Retrieved 2010-08-23.
^ "Funding for 1000Memories - A Nod to the Power of Digital Memories - Read Write Web, February 16, 2011". Archived from the original on 2011-11-01. Retrieved 2011-10-06.
^ "Ancestry.com Acquires Photo Digitization And Sharing Service 1000memories". TechCrunch. 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2013-08-11.

External links

"Official website". Archived from the original on 2013-01-11. Retrieved 2018-11-26.

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[TechCrunch-1] "1000memories Expands Beyond Digital Memorials, Becomes A Facebook For The Past - TechCrunch, September 27, 2011". 27 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-06.

[2] Ancestry.com acquires 1000memories Archived 2013-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, 1000 Memories weblog. Retrieved 2013-10-22

[Xconomy-3] "1000Memories Confronts Death by Celebrating Lives - Xconomy, August 16, 2010". Retrieved 2010-08-23.

[Read_Write_Web-4] "Funding for 1000Memories - A Nod to the Power of Digital Memories - Read Write Web, February 16, 2011". Archived from the original on 2011-11-01. Retrieved 2011-10-06.

[Acquisition-5] "Ancestry.com Acquires Photo Digitization And Sharing Service 1000memories". TechCrunch. 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2013-08-11.

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