Ancestry.com (Blackstone)
Blackstone acquired Ancestry.com from Silver Lake and Permira for $4.7B in 2020. Ancestry has 23M subscribers and one of the world's largest consumer DNA databases. Blackstone's ownership has raised ongoing concerns about data privacy practices and law enforcement cooperation.
- FOUNDED
- 1996
- ACQUIRED
- The Blackstone Group, 2020, $4.7B
- WEB
- ancestry.com
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Editorial Record
maintained by DeathbyPE. Every claim links to a public source.Timeline
1996
Ancestry.com (Blackstone) founded
2020
Acquired by The Blackstone Group for $4.7B
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