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Automattic

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Automattic is a web development and blogware company which can attribute much of its success to its popular blog platform Wordpress.com, an adaptation of the open source WordPress project. The company was founded by 20-something Matt Mullenweg who continues to be the primary developer and spokesman for the company. Former OddPost CEO and Yahoo Senior Executive Toni Schneider is CEO.

In addition to having 4 self-produced products (WordPress.com, WordPress.org, Akismet.com and bbPress) Automattic will now integrate Gravatar identity badges and all of Gravatar’s premium features into WordPress templates. Gravatar is Automattic’s first acquisition.

There are more than 7.5 million blogs hosted by Automattic, with thousands of new ones created each day.

Milestones

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• Acquired After the Deadline. (9/09)
  Posted 9/21/09 at 3:46pm
• Acquired Blo.gs. (4/21/09)
  Posted 4/22/09 at 8:31am
• Acquired PollDaddy. (10/15/08)
  Posted 10/15/08 at 2:00pm
• Acquired IntenseDebate. (9/23/08)
  Posted 9/23/08 at 11:21am
• Acquired Buddy Press. (3/4/08)
  Posted 10/15/08 at 2:00pm
• Received $29.5M in Series B funding. (1/1/08)
  Posted 1/23/08 at 11:10am
• Acquired Gravatar. (10/17/07)
  Posted 10/15/08 at 2:00pm
• Received $1.1M in Series A funding. (7/1/05)
  Posted 10/17/07 at 8:13am
• Toni Schneider, CEO added.
  Posted 10/17/07 at 8:00am
• Tony Conrad, Board Director added.
  Posted 4/9/08 at 4:31pm
• Ryan Boren, Primary Developer added.
  Posted 10/17/07 at 8:00am
• Matt Mullenweg, Founder/Primary Developer added.
  Posted 10/17/07 at 7:59am
• Anne Dorman, Chief Financial Officer added.
  Posted 6/30/08 at 1:08am
• Andy Peatling, BuddyPress Creator/Developer added.
  Posted 10/30/08 at 1:25pm
• Raanan Bar-Cohen, VP Media Services added.
  Posted 12/1/08 at 1:55pm
• Bryan Veloso, De-Uglifer added.
  Posted 12/4/08 at 1:03pm
• Beau Lebens, Code Wrangler added.
  Posted 6/18/09 at 3:32pm
• Andy Skelton, Code Wrangler added.
  Posted 7/1/09 at 12:26pm
• Michael Hirshland, Investor added.
  Posted 8/27/09 at 8:08am
• Mike Hirshland, Board Director added.
  Posted 8/27/09 at 8:11am

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Products

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Akismet

BuddyPress

Gravatar

WordPress

WordPress.com

bbPress

Traffic Analytics

Quantcast

Compete

Sources

1. WordPress Parent Buys Spell Checker Plug-In (paidcontent.org) [edit]
2. Yahoo Spins Off Blo.gs To Automattic (paidcontent.org) [edit]
3. WordPress Acquires Irish Startup Polldaddy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. WordPress: The Social Network (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Automattic Acquires Gravatar (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Automattic Raised $1.1M Last October (businessweek.com) [edit]
8. WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M (gigaom.com) [edit]