In 2012, 23andMe raised $50 million in a Series D venture round, almost doubling its capital of $52.6 million. Avey left in 2009 and co-founded Curious, Inc. In 2007, Cusenza left to join Nodal Exchange as CEO the following year. Wojcicki and Google co-founder Sergey Brin were married at the time. In 2007, Google invested $3.9 million in the company, along with Genentech, New Enterprise Associates, and Mohr Davidow Ventures. Linda Avey, Paul Cusenza and Anne Wojcicki founded 23andMe in 2006 to offer genetic testing and interpretation to individuals. 6 Informed consent and privacy concerns.2 Government regulation in the United States.Its saliva-based direct-to-consumer genetic testing business was named "Invention of the Year" by Time magazine in 2008. In 2007, 23andMe became the first company to begin offering autosomal DNA testing for ancestry, which all other major companies now use. 23andMe has been selling a product with both ancestry and health-related components in Canada since October 2014, and in the UK since December 2014. The company had a previously fraught relationship with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to its genetic health tests, but as of October 2015, DNA tests ordered in the US include a revised health component, per FDA approval. The company's name is derived from the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a wildtype human cell. It is best known for providing a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service in which customers provide a saliva sample that is laboratory analysed, using single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping, to generate reports relating to the customer's ancestry and genetic predispositions to health-related topics.
is a publicly held personal genomics and biotechnology company based in Sunnyvale, California.
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