{"id":37696,"date":"2016-04-06T15:44:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T22:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=37696"},"modified":"2016-04-06T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T22:44:31","slug":"silver-lake-to-invest-in-ancestry-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=37696","title":{"rendered":"Silver Lake to invest in Ancestry.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is from an article posted on reuters.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-ancestry-m-a-silverlake-idUSKCN0WY4ZI\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37697\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Silver-Lake-515.jpg\" alt=\"Silver-Lake-515\" width=\"515\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Silver-Lake-515.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Silver-Lake-515-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Ancestry.com in a deal that values the privately held genealogy website at $2.6 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The investment represents a bet that Ancestry&#8217;s fast-growing DNA business will continue to expand. Ancestry sold 1 million genomics kits last year, a 93 percent increase from the prior year, as people keen to discover their roots sent in saliva samples.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-ancestry-m-a-silverlake-idUSKCN0WY4ZI\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is from an article posted on reuters.com Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Ancestry.com in a deal that values the privately held genealogy website at $2.6 billion, including debt, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=37696\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Silver Lake to invest in Ancestry.com<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancestrycom","category-ancestrydna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37700,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37696\/revisions\/37700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}