1000Memories Explained

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]

External links

• Web site: Official website . dead . 2013-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130111054345/http://1000memories.com/# . 2018-11-26 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1000memories Expands Beyond Digital Memorials, Becomes A Facebook For The Past - TechCrunch, September 27, 2011 . 27 September 2011 . 2011-10-06.
2. http://blog.1000memories.com/170-ancestry-acquires-1000memories Ancestry.com acquires 1000memories
3. Web site: 1000Memories Confronts Death by Celebrating Lives - Xconomy, August 16, 2010 . 2010-08-23.
4. News: Funding for 1000Memories - A Nod to the Power of Digital Memories - Read Write Web, February 16, 2011. 2011-10-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20111101074051/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/funding_for_1000memories_-_a_nod_to_the_power_of_d.php#. 2011-11-01. dead.
5. News: Ancestry.com Acquires Photo Digitization And Sharing Service 1000memories. TechCrunch. 2012-10-03 . 2013-08-11.