The History Project offers an interactive timeline and cloud storage product for collecting, curating and digitizing personal and family histories, including songs, voice recordings and offline assets. Founder Niles Lichtenstein began the work after finding records from his late father and documenting his mother’s life; he previously worked in mobile advertising. The product emphasizes multi-layered, multi-perspective storytelling so contributors can record confirming and conflicting accounts. The company focuses on digitizing offline content as well as capturing contemporary stories. For distribution it has partnered with filmmakers and has a History Project narrative tied to an HBO documentary about Richard Holbrooke. The startup operates a freemium model with a self-service timeline builder, paid digitization services starting at $295, and a premium package (photobook, video and time capsule) for $995. The History Project recently closed $2 million in investments.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Nov 2015