Automattic
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| Private | |
| Industry | Internet |
| Founded | August 2005 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
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Key people
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Matt Mullenweg (Founder, CEO, president) |
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WordPress.com Akismet Gravatar Cloudup Polldaddy VaultPress VideoPress IntenseDebate Plinky WordPress.com VIP After the Deadline Simplenote WooCommerce WooThemes |
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Number of employees
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520 |
| Website | automattic.com |
Automattic, Inc. is a web development corporation founded in August 2005. It is most notable for WordPress.com (a free blogging service), as well as its contributions to WordPress (open source blogging software). The company's name plays on its founder's first name, Matt.
The company has 520 employees. Its culture was the topic of a participative journalism project by Scott Berkun, entitled The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work.
Automattic raised US$317.3 million in five funding rounds. In the last round, on May 2014, the company was valued at US$1.16 billion USD.
Other projects include:
Automattic's employees include Matthew Mullenweg and Ryan Boren, two of the primary developers of WordPress.
On January 11, 2006, it was announced that Toni Schneider would be leaving Yahoo! to become CEO of Automattic. He was previously CEO of Oddpost before it was acquired by Yahoo!, where he had continued as a senior executive.
In April 2006, it was revealed, through a Regulation D filing, that Automattic raised approximately $1.1 million in funding, which Mullenweg addressed in his blog. Investors were Polaris Ventures, True Ventures, Radar Partners, and CNET.
On September 23, 2008, Automattic announced acquiring IntenseDebate. Two months later, on November 15, 2008, Automattic acquired PollDaddy.
On September 9, 2010, Automattic gave the WordPress trademark and control over bbPress and BuddyPress to the WordPress Foundation.
On May 19, 2015, Automattic announced the acquisition of WooThemes, including their flagship product WooCommerce.
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