Ancestry.com
Silver Lake and Permira took Ancestry.com private for $1.6B in 2012. Sold to Blackstone for $4.7B in 2020. Ancestry raised subscription prices and faced privacy criticism for its DNA database practices and law enforcement cooperation policies during PE ownership.
- FOUNDED
- 1996
- ACQUIRED
- Silver Lake, 2012, $1.6B
- WEB
- ancestry.com
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Editorial Record
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1996
Ancestry.com founded
2012
Acquired by Silver Lake for $1.6B
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