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Mocavo is a privately held Internet company based in Boulder, Colorado, United States.〔(LAUNCH Instant 001: Mocavo )〕 It is a for-profit, genealogy search engine with millions of records and historical documents online;〔(Colorado’s ‘Mocavo’ is a Genealogical Search Engine for Cheapskates like Me )〕 it provides a number of tools such as family trees and advanced search features for genealogical and historical research. == History == Founded by Cliff Shaw, Mocavo launched on March 16, 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Genealogy Insider - Free genealogy search engine Mocavo.com launches )〕 On June 14, 2011, Family Tree Magazine named Mocavo as one of the best 101 genealogy websites of 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tech Tools - Family Tree Magazine )〕 Mocavo participated in the Boulder Techstars program in the Summer of 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Full Startup Investment and Return Statistics )〕 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〔(Mocavo Introduces a U.K. Version of Its Genealogy Search Engine )〕 and launched its first paid service named Mocavo Plus in December 2011.〔(Mocavo Plus - The Next Generation of Genealogy Search Engine )〕 In May 2012, Mocavo received a $4.1 million Series A round of funding from the Foundry Group.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mocavo )〕 After gaining additional funding, Ryan Hunter and Michael J. Leclerc joined Mocavo as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Genealogist respectively.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mocavo Expands Leadership Team with Industry Veterans )〕 In September 2012, Mocavo acquired ReadyMicro, a Utah-based company that specialized in digitization and preservation services.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mocavo Buys ReadyMicro For Digitization Technology - Techrockies.com )〕 In November 2012, Mocavo launched a free Yearbook collection〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Genea-Musings )〕 and rolled out free scanning services for all Mocavo members.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GeneaPress )〕 In January 2013 Mocavo joined FHISO as one of the founding members,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Let’s Connect. Mocavo experts join FHISO 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RootsWeb: FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-L FreeBMD Newsletter - March 2013 )〕 On October 11, 2013, Mocavo announced its Free Forever Movement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Genealogy's Star: Mocavo makes a bid in database race )〕 In June 2014 it was announced that UK based genealogy provider Findmypast had acquired the company for an undisclosed sum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Findmypast buys Mocavo )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mocavo.com」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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