AOL Acquires Personal Splash Page Startup About.me

Simplicity sells. Yesterday About.me co-founder Tony Conrad announced in a blog post that the custom splash page and personal analytics dashboard had been sold to AOL less than a week after its launch to the public. He and his co-founders, Ryan Freitas and Tim Young and the rest of the team will move forward “start-up-style” from within Brad Garlinhouse’s Consumer Applications group at AOL.

Founded in 2009, About.me raised $425,000 in funding from investors including AOL Ventures and True Ventures.