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Geni, which could rightfully be called a Social Network for the family has raised $10 million in their second round of financing from Charles River Ventures at a post money valuation of $100 million, which is a staggering amount considering the fact that the service is just a few weeks old. George Zachary from CRV will be joining the Geni Board. Geni initially raised $1.5 million from the Founder’s Fund.
Geni currently boosts 100,000 registered users with 2 million family nodes.
Geni provides an extremely easy to use Flash based family tree. When you fill out your family tree, the family members are mailed (optional) to register and help out in building the family tree. I have not come across a social network that is more usable than Geni. Signup is a breeze, and all you need to do after this is to add your parents and here you go. It would be interesting to look at the tree in some years. Many people would come across family members that they haven’t even heard off before.
Geni plans to launch support for localization, messaging between family members, audio, video and photo storage and sharing and other social networking goodies along with the ability to automatically merge overlapping family trees. They would also be integrating with Google Maps to find out where a family member currently is.
An integration with Linkedin would create a network of family members along with their business relationships, thereby making it even more killer. All in all this is a social network to watch out for.
