23andMe
Sign in to save23andMe Holding Co. is an American personal genomics and biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California. 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. The company's name is derived from the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a diploid human cell.
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- Company.revenue
- (2024)
- Company.name
- 23andMe Holding Co.
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- 23andMe Logo
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- Former headquarters in Sunnyvale, California
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.location_city
- South San Francisco, California
- Company.defunct
- March 2025
- Company.fate
- Filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in March 2025; in June 2025, TTAM Research Institute bought 23andMe's assets for $305 million.
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- TTAM Research Institute
- Company.num_employees
- 582 (2024)
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- (2024)
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- (2024)
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- (2024)
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- (2024)
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- Financials .
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21 sectionsContents
- History
- Products
- Direct-to-consumer genetic testing
- Product changes
- Additional services
- Lemonaid Health acquisition
- Instrument and chip versions
- Government regulation in the United States
- State regulators
- FDA
- COVID-19
- Informed consent and privacy concerns
- United States
- European Union
- Medical research
- Use by law enforcement
- 2023 data breach
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23andMe Holding Co. is an American personal genomics and biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California. 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. The company's name is derived from the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a diploid human cell.
Founded in 2006, 23andMe soon became the first company to begin offering autosomal DNA testing for ancestry, which all other major companies now use. Its saliva-based direct-to-consumer genetic testing business was named "Invention of the Year" by Time in 2008.
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