Comments on: Fast exit – UK’s Kindo acquired by Israel’s MyHeritage

By: Shake and bake baby - MyHeritage buys Kindo at oneafrikan.com

Shake and bake baby - MyHeritage buys Kindo at oneafrikan.com — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:37:30 +0000

[...] story on the Kindo blog. Seen on Techrunch UK, VentureBeat, Techcrunch US, paidContent and PHP Kitchen to mention a few of the 130 odd posts thus [...]

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:23:36 +0000

Thanks Mike.
Sorry for the delay in info this time. Next time we will let you know earlier again

Cheers Mario

By: Fabio

Fabio — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:47:02 +0000

@TM – as long as TAG, Index and all the other stakeholders are happy with the deal I wouldn’t call it *conflict of interest*
It’s their business as so it should stay.

By: MyHeritage acquires family social network Kindo « DrewPreston

MyHeritage acquires family social network Kindo « DrewPreston — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:58:51 +0000

[...] post. The full story was shown on the Kindo blog. The news made it in some prominent blogs such as Techrunch UK, VentureBeat, Techcrunch, paidContent and PHP Kitchen to mention a few. Here is the official press [...]

By: MyHeritage adds another branch to its tree: Kindo

MyHeritage adds another branch to its tree: Kindo — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:41:51 +0000

[...] to Mike Butcher, MyHeritage liked the fact that Kindo is all about the next generation, instead of just ancestors. [...]

By: TM

TM — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:40:12 +0000

It does seem a little odd that TAG was the seed investor in Kindo.
Saul Klein is a partner at Index Ventures.
Index Ventures invests in MyHeritage.
Shortly thereafter, MyHeritage acquires Kindo.

You say “helped wrap up the deal”, I say “conflict of interest.”

By: MyHeritage acquires Kindo for smarter family tree

MyHeritage acquires Kindo for smarter family tree — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:08:24 +0000

[...] So why would a service with 25 million users would care for a small player? Probably to extend its presence in Europe with an existing team and have a plug and play service in 14 languages but also to have a comparable technology and product asset with its main new challengers: Geni.com et Verwandt (in Germany). Kindo’s product is nicely done (see below for yourself) and even better than MyHeritage’s own service. It makes sense to think that both services will merge at some point. [Update: TechCrunch UK has more on this]. [...]