Type Private Headquarters Boulder Parent organization Find My Past Ltd. | Website mocavo.com Founded 2011 | |
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Industry Online services
Genealogy
Online publishing Key people Cliff Shaw, President/CEO
Richard Miller, CTO | ||
Mocavo was a privately held Internet company based in Boulder, Colorado, United States. A for-profit, genealogy search engine with millions of records and historical documents online, it provides a number of tools such as family trees and advanced search features for genealogical and historical research.
In June 2014 it was acquired by Findmypast for an undisclosed sum.
History
Founded by Cliff Shaw, Mocavo launched on March 16, 2011. On June 14, 2011, Family Tree Magazine named Mocavo as one of the best 101 genealogy websites of 2011.
Mocavo participated in the Boulder Techstars program in the Summer of 2011.
In September 2011, Mocavo raised a 1 million dollar round from "David Cohen, Dave McClure, David Bonderman, Walt Winshall, David Calone, Dave Carlson, Troy Henikoff, and other angels". Mocavo introduced Mocavo.co.uk on November 29, 2011 and launched its first paid service named Mocavo Plus in December 2011. In May 2012, Mocavo received a $4.1 million Series A round of funding from the Foundry Group.
After gaining additional funding, Ryan Hunter and Michael J. Leclerc joined Mocavo as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Genealogist respectively. In September 2012, Mocavo acquired ReadyMicro, a Utah-based company that specialized in digitization and preservation services.
In November 2012, Mocavo launched a free Yearbook collection and rolled out free scanning services for all Mocavo members. In January 2013 Mocavo joined FHISO as one of the founding members, to help maintain, develop and evolve the GEDCOM standards sought by the genealogy community; it also partnered with FreeBMD to add 300 million English and Welsh records to the Mocavo index. On October 11, 2013, Mocavo announced its Free Forever Movement.
In June 2014 it was announced that UK based genealogy provider Findmypast had acquired the company for an undisclosed sum.