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about.me provides a personal branding platform where individuals can create a customizable profile page to showcase their work, contact information, and media.
Also known as about.me · About.me
Founders & leadership
Investors · 4
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026about.me is a personal web hosting and profile service that gives registered users a simple page to present who they are and what they do, and to link to their other online identities, external sites and social networking accounts such as Facebook, Flickr and Google+. The service is commercial and requires registration.
The current product centers on an AI "Virtual Twin": a conversational agent attached to the user's about.me page that visitors can chat with. Users create a page, train the Twin on their bio, skills, work and goals, and the Twin then answers visitor questions in the user's tone, collects contact details from conversations into a built-in CRM, and can connect to a calendar to schedule meetings. Alongside the Twin, the page itself supports an email signature snapshot, a configurable Spotlight button (options include Visit My Website, Lead Capture, Appointment Scheduling and Contact Me), custom domain connection, customized search-engine result presentation, Google Analytics traffic statistics, testimonials, a portfolio of images and videos, and video embeds.
Founding story
The service was created by Tony Conrad, Ryan Freitas and Tim Young in October 2009 as a simple platform from which individuals could link their multiple online identities and social profiles.
Business model
Freemium subscription. A free tier provides the about.me page and email signature; paid tiers unlock the AI Virtual Twin, lead capture into the built-in CRM, appointment scheduling and page customization features.
Self-serve subscription pricing published on the site: Free at $0/year; Standard at $6/month or $60/year (page, AI Virtual Twin, lead capture into CRM, appointment scheduling, email signature); and Pro at $9/month or $90/year, which adds custom domain connection, a customizable Spotlight button, image gallery or video embed, removal of about.me branding and customer support.
Latest developments
The product line has been extended with Virtual Twin AI, described as a digital version of the user that page visitors can interact with; it is included from the Standard plan upward and paired with lead capture into an about.me CRM and calendar-based appointment scheduling.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Established personal-profile and personal web hosting service, operating since 2010 through ownership by AOL, a founder buyback and a 2019 acquisition by Broadly, now positioning its pages around conversational AI.
Technology
An AI "Virtual Twin" trained on the user's profile information that converses with page visitors in the user's tone, captures contact information into an integrated CRM, and integrates with the user's calendar (and, for lead capture and appointment scheduling, a connected Google account) to book meetings.
Go-to-market
Direct self-serve signup on about.me with a free tier and paid upgrade path; member pages are showcased publicly on the homepage, and users' pages and email signatures act as distribution surfaces.
Individual professionals and other individuals who want a personal landing page — examples featured on the site include a company founder/CEO, a construction executive and software founder, and an administrative support specialist.
Geography
Available online; featured member pages come from the United States and Spain.
History
about.me was co-founded by Ryan Freitas, Tony Conrad and Tim Young in October 2009 and launched publicly in December 2010. AOL acquired the site in December 2010 and held it for a little over twenty-five months. On February 5, 2013 it was announced that Conrad had bought back majority control from AOL for an undisclosed sum that he described as a fraction of AOL's original purchase price; Conrad said the site did not fit AOL's content-focused business model. The company returned to operating as a startup and began another funding round after the announcement. In October 2014 it launched Intro, a business-card app, which came to Android in April 2015. On February 21, 2019, about.me was acquired by Broadly.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through About.me went on to found or lead other companies.
Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsabout.me introduced Virtual Twin AI, an interactive digital version of the user that chats with page visitors, captures leads into a built-in CRM and schedules meetings via a connected calendar.
about.me was acquired by Broadly, a mobile-first small business startup.
about.me launched Intro, an app positioned as a reinvention of the business card; an Android version followed in April 2015.
It was announced that Tony Conrad had reacquired majority control of about.me from AOL; the price was undisclosed but described by Conrad as a fraction of what AOL had paid. The site returned to operating as a startup and began another funding round following the announcement.
about.me launched with a personal domain brand offering, announced via Business Wire.
AOL acquired the personal profile startup about.me in December 2010 and held it for a little over twenty-five months.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Aboutabout.me · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does About.me do?
- about.me is a personal web hosting service offering profile pages with an interactive AI "Virtual Twin" chat assistant.
- Who are About.me's investors?
- About.me's investors include Bullpen Capital, GV (Google Ventures), Lowercase Capital, Uncork Capital.