At Inflection, we like to think our relationship
to press coverage is sort of like your own. We don't
spend an inordinate amount of time pursuing it, but we're
always thrilled when we get some, especially when it's
positive. At the very least, nothing legitimizes Inflection's
work more to our teams' family and friends as much as
an article in a newspaper, a form of media known for its
use of black ink, dead trees, and (mostly) good writing.
For press inquiries, contact: company@inflection.com.
Archives.com sale prompts new Web products for Inflection Silicon Prairie
In late April, with the $100 million sale of Inflection's Archives.com family history business to Ancestry.com, the Omaha member services team, which supported both Archives.com and its PeopleSmart.com product, lost half of its volume. Senior Director of Member Services Michelle Steinbeck recalled that Inflection's CEO, Matthew Monahan, assured her team that their jobs were not in danger; in fact, since then, the Silicon Prairie arm of the six-year-old Silicon Valley-based business has added 5,600 square feet to its offices to accommodate the development of new products, such as employment screening clearing house GoodHire, and to make way for at least 15 hires to support various teams in the coming year. More »
Modcloth and Inflection Drive Performance with Next-Gen Keyword Contextual Targeting
Advertisers use contextual targeting on the Google Display Network to reach new customers as they browse content related to their products and services. In March we launched Next-Gen Keyword Contextual Targeting, which enabled our display advertisers to manage their contextual campaigns with the same level of precision and granularity as search. In a few short months we’ve been delighted to see how it’s translated into real results for our customers, and today we’d like to shine a light on two specific examples. More »
Monahans build on ideas, culture and $100M exit
Brian and Matthew Monahan's sale of Archives.com last month was the first $100 million exit for their Redwood City-based company, Inflection LLC. They're confident it won't be the last. While the deal with genealogy giant Ancestry.com turned heads, the two young brothers — "chief idea guy" and CEO, respectively — say their profitable, 125-person company is only getting started... More »
Ancestry.com Inc. Completes Acquisition of Archives.com
PROVO, Utah, Aug. 17, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq:ACOM) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Archives.com, a leading family history website, for approximately $100 million in cash and assumed liabilities. More »
Why Adding a Video Increased Engagement on a ZURBJobs Listing by 53 seconds
The other day we noticed something very interesting with a job listing post from our friends over at Inflection, which builds a search engine for digital public records. Back in April, they posted a job for a Front-End Developer previously on our jobs board, ZURBjobs, and it did fairly well. But when they recently reposted the job... More »
How to Nail the Interview — When You're the Interviewer
Last year, I was tasked with hiring 11 of the best graduates from the class of 2011 for my company, Inflection. We called it "11411." We had 350 applicants—and ultimately made 18 offers and hired 17 outstanding graduates from Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and other top schools. More »
Inflection's Omaha team staying put after $100m sale of Archives.com
Chalk any uptick in midweek traffic at the Kobe Steakhouse in west Omaha this week up to patronage from the folks at Inflection. More »
Ancestry.com Agrees to Buy Archives.com for $100 million
Matthew Monahan, the CEO of big-data startup Inflection, had to wake his brother and co-founder, Brian, in the middle of the night, so he could witness the signing of a $100 million deal in which family history site Ancestry.com agreed to buy Archives.com. More »
Archives.com Joins the Ancestry.com Family for $100M
Following its high-profile release of the 1v940 U.S. Census as official government partner, Archives.com is being bought by Ancestry.com for $100 million in cash. More »
Ancestry.com Acquires Archives.com For $100 Million
Utah-based genealogy site Ancestry.com just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Silicon Valley-based startup Inflection to acquire its competitor Archives.com for $100 million in cash and assumed liabilities. More »
Ancestry.com buys Archives.com for $100M
Ancestry.com, a publicly-traded genealogy company with a $1 billion market cap, announced late Wednesday that it's buying privately-held Archives.com, a provider of similar family-history services, for about $100 million in cash and assumed liabilities. More »
ELCA, Archives.com Partner to Digitize Millions of Church Records
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has forged a partnership with a major family genealogy website in which the denomination will have hundreds of reels of microfilm containing church records between 1793 to 1940 digitized. More »
1940 census records are a smash online hit
Americans responded in overwhelming numbers Monday to the online release of detailed information from the 1940 census — the first time such a trove of historic census records has been available on the Internet. More »
Did US taxpayers get a good deal? Census 1940 site was built for free
Who says there's no free lunch? You may have read over the past week about the release of 1940 Census records on a new U.S. government website, a site that buckled under the huge demand from people looking up details on the lives of their friends and relatives... More »
Found in the 1940 Census
Interest in yesterday's online release of the 1940 census records was so great—over twenty-two million hits in the first three hours of operation, thirty-seven million by mid-afternoon—that the National Archives Web site crashed and was unavailable for most of the day. More »
1940 census goes live April 2, expecting 250,000 thousand indexers
Archives.com and the National Archives have set up a site where the 1940 census will digitally be made available free of charge beginning
April 2, which will end a 72-year wait for the records. More »
National Archives Announces Website for Free 1940 Census Release Online on April 2, 2012: 1940census.archives.gov
Today the National Archives, with its partner Archives.com, launched its new website 1940census.archives.gov in preparation for its first-ever online US census release, which will take place on April 2, 2012. More »
With Millions Of New Records, Inflection Delivers One-Two Punch To Ancestry.com
Inflection may be the hottest Silicon Valley company you've never heard of. That's largely because they've invested all their time in just building a big business, and almost none of it in talking about it. More »
Welcome, entrepreneurs
Yoseph Ayele connected with Silicon Valley's Inflection, a firm that aggregates public records and puts them online, at an OCS event last year. This year he was back on campus to sing his company's praises and to help recruit future graduates. More »
National Archives Announces Web Hosting Contract Awarded to Inflection
The National Archives today announced its selection of Inflection, parent company to family history web site Archives.com, to design and host a free web site for the April 2, 2012 launch of the 1940 U.S. Census. More »
Adaptive Path Founder Calls it Quits
Peter Merholz, the man who co-founded strategy and design firm Adaptive Path and coined the term "blog," has left the agency to work at a Silicon Valley startup. More »
Inflection Sees Big Opportunities in Big Data
By some estimates, 90 percent of the digital data in existence was created in the past two years. A large part of that data concerns people: social networking profiles, certainly, but also... More »
Employers Recruiting Off-Campus
Amid a hiring slowdown and bleak prospects for any turnaround, corporate recruiters have scaled back their visits to the nation's college campuses. More »
Archives.com to Add Entire US Census
Genealogy subscription site Archives.com will add indexes and images for the entire US federal census, probably the most-used US genealogical record... More »
Startup Aims to Digitize Records
It started in Mather House five years ago with an idea—take public records and put them online. More »
Archives.com Plots Online Family History Trends
Archives.com has just released an interesting summarization of trends in online family history and genealogy along with this neat infographic... More »
Archives Launches Grant Program for Genealogy Research and Preservation
Are you working on a family history or historical preservation project for your family or community, but don't quite have the funds to complete it? More »
Archives.com Adds Millions of Records
Subscription genealogy site Archives.com has added more than 40 million new digital records and 110 million scanned newspaper pages dating back to 1753. More »
Inflection record $30m Series 'A' for archives.com
Inflection, a company aimed at democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. More »
Inflection Gets $30M, Launches PeopleSmart
Inflection, a company aimed at democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. More »
Archives.com Owner Inflection Raises $30 Million
Inflection, an under-the-radar startup which owns genealogy website Archives.com, has raised $30 million in a first round of funding. The company... More »
Inflection Lands Big First Round For Public Records Search
Searching for people online makes up a big percentage of search engine queries, but building a company in this space has been challenging for start-ups. More »
Bootstrapping Band of Brothers Raise $30M for People
Search Engine Inflection
Brian and Matthew Monahan weren't quite sure how to raise venture capital funding, so they built Inflection from scratch and made it profitable with its first website for searching public records, Archives.com. More »
A Phonebook for the 21st Century
A start-up called Inflection wants to build a 21st-century version of the phonebook. Inflection operates Archives.com, a family history site that gathers... More »
Inflection Secures $30 Million to Transform Public
Records Industry
Inflection, a company aimed at democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. More »
