Inflection is a Silicon Valley technology startup
that seeks to democratize access to historical and
contemporary public records, as well as provide a host
of identity- and privacy-monitoring tools and services.
Its two primary products, PeopleSmart.com and
Archives.com, are among the fastest-growing websites
in the people search and family history industries.
Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures back the
profitable company.
For press inquiries, contact: company@inflection.com.
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 »
