M&A Deal Summary

Ancestry Acquires Archives.com

On April 26, 2012, Ancestry acquired consumer services company Archives.com for 100M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Ancestry’s 1st transaction in the Consumer Services sector.
  • This is Ancestry’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Ancestry’s 3rd transaction in the United States.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-04-26
Target Archives.com
Sector Consumer Services
Buyer(s) Ancestry
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 100M USD

Target

Archives.com

United States
website
Archives.com’s launch in January 2010, It offers access to about 2 billion historical records, from birth records to obituaries. It has 380,000 paying customers.

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Buyer

Ancestry

Provo, Utah, United States

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Category Company
Founded 1990
Sector Information Services
DESCRIPTION
Ancestry.com's offices in Dublin, Ireland.
Ancestry.com's offices in Dublin, Ireland.

Ancestry.com is a provider of family history and consumer genomics information, and helps people gain a new level of understanding about their lives. The Company's suite of history products include Archives, Fold3, Newspapers.com, AncestryDNA, and AncestryHealth. Ancestry.com was formed in 1990 and is based in Provo, Utah.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 8
Sector (Consumer Services) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 4 of 8
Country (United States) 3 of 6
Year (2012) 1 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-09-23 iArchives

Lindon, Utah, United States

iArchives is a digitization service provider that also operates Footnote.com, a subscription Web site that features searchable original documents, providing over 35,000 paying subscribers with a view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-10-03 1000memories

San Francisco, California, United States

1000memories, Inc. is a software that makes it easy to digitize and share photos and stories from the past.

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