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Websiteautomattic.com
Blogautomattic.com/news
Twitter@automattic
CategoryConsumer Web
Phone(877) 273-8550
Employees120
Founded7/05
DescriptionDevelops publishing platforms

Offices

San Francisco, USA
60 29th Street
#343
San Francisco, CA, 94110-4929
USA

People

Founder / President
CEO
CFO
SVP, Commercial Services
Board Director
WordPress Mobile Projects Lead
Ads Lead
Primary Developer
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Former People

Chief Financial Officer
De-Uglifer
Investor, Director
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Acquisitions

Simperium, 1/13
CodeGarage, 12/12
After the Deadline, 9/09
Blo.gs, 4/09
PollDaddy, 10/08
IntenseDebate, 9/08
Buddy Press, 3/08
Gravatar, 10/07

Investments

WP Engine 11/11
OwnLocal 6/10

Funding

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PR
Legal
Infrastructure
Infrastructure

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Automattic

Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, the simplest, most secure way to start web-publishing immediately on the open source WordPress platform. They also make Jetpack for WordPress, which bundles a number of social improvements to the WordPress core software as a single plugin.

Automattic offers a number of products, like VaultPress and Akismet, on a freemium model so anyone can use them for free, and later have the choice to pay extra for premium features.

Automattic has over 150 employees, including nearly 130 who are focused on product development and support. Automattic is led by CEO Toni Schneider and founder Matt Mullenweg and expects to grow to 200 people by the end of 2013.

Recent Milestones

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Products

Akismet
BuddyPress
Gravatar
Jetpack
Plinky
Simperium
VaultPress
VideoPress
WordPress.com
WordPress.com VIP
bbPress

Traffic Analytics

Quantcast

Livegraph

Compete

Automattic

Sources

  1. Automattic Acquires Simperium, The Y Combinator-Backed Data Syncing Startup Behind Simplenote (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. CodeGarage is Joining Automattic! (codegarage.com) [edit]
  3. WordPress Parent Buys Spell Checker Plug-In (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  4. Yahoo Spins Off Blo.gs To Automattic (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  5. WordPress Acquires Irish Startup Polldaddy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. WordPress: The Social Network (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Automattic Acquires Gravatar (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Silverton, Automattic Put $1.2M Into WordPress Hosting And Security Service WP Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. YComb’s Seeing Interactive Raises Seed Round From Baseline, Buchheit, Schachter, and Lerer Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  11. Automattic Raised $1.1M Last October (businessweek.com) [edit]
  12. WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M (gigaom.com) [edit]
  13. Automattic Buys Up Thing Labs’ Plinky To Help Bloggers Overcome Writer’s Block (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    WordPress.com Parent Company Automattic On Track To Make $45M In Revenue This Year (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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