About

the place for the family

We set to build Familio with one mission:
We want our moms to be happy :)

Mission accomplished.

Our moms are indeed happier now. They now start their day with a healthy dose of fresh new moments that we share with them. Moments like pictures of our kids - their grandchildren, snapshots from our daily life, short video clips of precious fleeting moments, and lots more.

It’s not just our moms of course. Our dads, sisters, brothers, favorite cousins - our entire family just got a lot closer. Keeping in touch with the people we love most has becomes effortless and so much more rewarding.

Familio is the place for our family. It is where we feel comfortable sharing our most precious family moments with the people we care about and trust - with our family.

Familio is what the Photo Albums of Yore were - a place to treasure your most precious moments for years to come, a place to return to over and over again to relish old memories and savor new ones.

Familio is safe, private, simple, and most important - it was created to bring families closer together.

Welcome!

A Private Way To Share With Your Family

When you share on Familio, you know exactly who you’re sharing with.

No matter how big or small your family is, on Familio you share with the members of your family that you feel comfortable sharing with, and only with them.

You don’t have to share with anyone just because they’re family. There are no privacy settings to set, no group or circles to join. Simply indicate the family members you’d like to share with, or accept sharing requests from them.

We’ve defined very strict rules that guard the privacy of your shared moments. Just because you’re sharing a moment with a close family member doesn’t mean they can now post it to the World Wide Web for anyone to see.

You always know who saw your moment, who shared it, and if something makes you feel uncomfortable, you can take immediate actions to make it right again.

A Simple Way To Share With Your Family

We would like to make it possible for all members of your family to be able to participate in Familio.

This is why we refrained from building Familio as a one size fit all: We, ourselves, use Familio on our smartphones and laptops. For our parents we built the Familio Startpage and they now smile each time they open their computer. We didn't forget our grandparents too, who hardly use the computer, they are enjoying Familio moments on their Familio Love Frame and can easily browse Familio moments on their digital TV .

We’ve worked hard to make this possible because we feel that sharing and enjoying family moments should be possible for all members of the family (and not just for those using smartphones).

We’ve made it possible to share family moments from pretty much any device - use our smart uploader to upload from your desktop computer, our Familio app to share from your iPhone, iPad or Android-based device, or via email to share from pretty much any connected device.

Familio Understands Families

Families. Most of us take this basic unit of human society for granted. However, as we pulled our sleeves and started getting into the nitty-gritty details, we realized that families are special.

A family is not a “group”, neither a “circle”. It’s nothing like friends, or followers, or fans. A family has rules of its own, a highly emotional entity with history, present and future.

Families are complicated :)

We realize that your family is not the same as your spouse’s family. We realize there are some family members that you both feel very comfortable sharing with, and others which may be family to your spouse, but practically strangers to you. Hence, we made the decision who to share with very personal. You share with the family that makes you feel comfortable, and not with anyone who shares a remote ancestor with you or your spouse.

We realize that the conversations around your family moments are intimate and private, and that you will not be comfortable having someone who you don’t personally call family read them or participate in them. Hence, only the family members that share with you already can see your notes on family moments.

We realize that the relationship between you and your spouse is based on trust. Hence, we allow your spouse extra privileges, like deciding that it’s ok to post your shared moment to, say, Facebook - something no one else other than you two can do.

We realize that families are dynamic. They get formed, they grow, they evolve, and sometimes they split in various ways. Hence, we built Familio thinking of these family dynamics and made sure Familio can cater to them all..

These are just a few examples for the multitude of different interactions we took into account. We quickly realized that there are 3 underlying principles we would like to apply to the solution for each such interaction:

Intimacy. Transparency. Trust.

These are the pillars we built the Familio model on.

Treasure Your Family Moments

Here at Familio we really, really care about your memories. This is why we’re going to extreme measures to make sure that we keep them safe. This is also why we encourage you to share as many moments as you’d like to, and to upload pictures and videos at the highest possible quality, ensuring that you’ll be able to view them on as many devices as possible and to print them into beautiful pictures if you choose to.

Familio is currently in “beta” - which means we’re still learning the usage patterns and the costs involved in keeping this high bar. We may need to put some restrictions on these “no limits, max quality” approach at some point. If we do end up restricting this at some point (hopefully not!), we do promise that we will never limit or charge existing users for existing shared moments (pictures, videos etc) that were upload prior to the potential change in policy. This is a small token of appreciation that we’re happy to provide you in return for putting up with Familio not being perfect (yet).

You are the sole owner of your memories. You can already retrieve the original copy of any media file you ever shared into Familio, and we’ll continue to make it easier for you to take your family history out of Familio. If you decide to leave we’ll be sad, but we’ll make the process as smooth as possible for you.

The Team

Avi Charkham:
Married to Sharon, proud father of Stav (14), Shahar (9) and Yarden (6) and the loving child of Esty and Richard.

Avichay Nissenbaum:
Married to Daphna, proud father of Daniell (18), Ido (13), Jonathan (11), Roy (8) and Yael (4.5) and the loving child of Edna and Kuty.

Eran Sandler:
Married to Maya, proud father of Guy (2) and the loving child of Edith and Avigad.

Iftach Orr:
Soon to be married to Mika, proud ideological father of Peace (4 y/o cat) and Boogy (3 y/o dog), and the loving child of Aliza and Shabtai.

Yaniv Golan #1 (*):
Married to Hila, proud Father of Noa (3.5) and Amit (0.5), and the loving child of Shulamit and Moshe.

Yaniv Golan #2 (*):
Married to Shira, proud father of Lia (5) and Alma (3), and the loving child of Hana and Dov.

(*) Yes, having two Yaniv Golans on the team can make communication quite awkward. Alas, he won’t change his name!