deals, acquisitions, Search
Intelius Scoops Up Spock
Gregory T. Huang 5/1/09
Bellevue, WA-based Intelius, a company that provides background checks and identity theft protection, has acquired Redwood City, CA-based people search engine Spock, as reported by VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and others. Terms were not disclosed. Intelius was founded in 2003 and is led by CEO Naveen Jain, the founder of InfoSpace.
Gregory T. Huang is the Editor of Xconomy Seattle. You can e-mail him at gthuang@xconomy.com or call 206-624-2249.
5/6/09 2:29 pm
[...] Intelius succeeded InfoSpac among Naveen Jain’s entrepreneurial ventures. Except for its ties to Naveen Jain and the obvious technological denominator, InfoSpace was a far different company than the next; it was a publicly traded, multi-billion content provider with impressive stock performances on Wall Street. [...]