23andMe
23andMe, the startup widely known as the company whose founder is the wife of Sergey Brin, has plans to make the human genome searchable
| Startup type: | Company |
| Status: | Active |
| Stage: | Growth |
| Funding: | Venture capital firm |
| Location: | Mountain View, CA USA |
| Website: | http://23andme.com |
| More info: | CrunchBase |
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23andMe, the startup widely known as the company whose founder is the wife of Sergey Brin, has plans to make the human genome searchable. Brin, along with Google, gave 23andMe $3.9 million as part of a series A in May of 2007. The company, cleverly named after the number of paired chromosomes in humans, wants to help you understand what your genes mean by indexing them and highlighting significant findings. 23andMe will allow its clients/users to better understand their ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits. For researchers and scientist, the company could provide invaluable amounts of neatly categorized and easily searchable data.
To Web 2.0, the significance of this company lies in its ability to potentially allow Google to yet again index another facet of the worlds information. With the Biotech and Health Care industries growing rapidly, 23andMe could be Googles entrance into these already multi-billion dollar areas.
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Franklin Naval
Adventurer Entrepreneur, 32, Former Googler, interested in meeting new people, new technologies, social media, Enterprise 2.0 and emergent markets. Currently at www.quadraforte.com working on cloud computing deployments on various platforms.
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Radostina Ruseva
Business development consultant, MBA at TUM Business School, Computer Science, Multimedia and Communications at LMU Munich and University of Helsinki, lecturer at Sofia University, employee of Microsoft, Siemens, BMW, Telefonica, start-ups co-founder
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Michael Pearson
Entrepreneurshops ® mission based on trust, is to place the right client in the right franchise by providing a consulting experience that is so value packed and memorable that the customer is compelled to do it again.
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Sean Gourley
CTO & co-founder of Quid. Building the next generation intelligence platform.