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Matt Mullenweg

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Matt is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. He is the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress. After leaving CNET, he has devoted the majority of his time to developing a number of open source projects and is a frequent speaker at conferences, such as Canada’s Northern Voice and the WordCamp events organized around WordPress software. In late 2005, he founded Automattic, the business behind WordPress.com and Akismet. Mullenweg attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where he studied jazz saxophone.

A Houston native, Matt also serves as an adviser to Sphere and WeGame.

Recent Milestones

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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Crowdtilt. (3/22/13)
  Posted 4/2/13 at 3:12am via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Wealthfront. (3/20/13)
  Posted 3/21/13 at 12:59pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in BitPay. (1/7/13)
  Posted 1/7/13 at 6:29pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in SmartThings. (12/4/12)
  Posted 12/4/12 at 8:56pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Munchery. (11/9/12)
  Posted 11/8/12 at 11:42pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in BlackJet. (10/26/12)
  Posted 10/26/12 at 2:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Summly . (10/1/12)
  Posted 3/17/13 at 9:22am
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in VHX. (6/19/12)
  Posted 6/19/12 at 7:35pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Wantful. (3/20/12)
  Posted 3/20/12 at 8:59pm via finsmes.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Munchery. (1/31/12)
  Posted 2/8/12 at 12:09am
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Tracks.by. (12/1/11)
  Posted 3/23/12 at 11:24am
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Getaround. (9/9/11)
  Posted 9/9/11 at 6:10pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Livestar. (6/4/11)
  Posted 5/6/13 at 12:32pm
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Milk. (4/1/11)
  Posted 4/26/11 at 4:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Hipmunk. (10/5/10)
  Posted 8/17/10 at 10:55am via thealarmclock.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in BranchOut. (9/17/10)
  Posted 9/17/10 at 2:24pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

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The 25 Most Influential People on the Web (images.businessweek.com) [edit]
1. Crowdfunding Platform Crowdtilt Lands $12M From Sean Parker, Andreessen & More; Now Acquiring To Expand Into Mobile (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Wealthfront, The Investing Service That Has Made Me Money, Raises $20M From Index, Greylock and Social+Capital Partnership (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. BitPay Banks $510K In Investment To Become PayPal for Bitcoin, Already Has 2,100 Businesses On Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. SmartThings Closes $3M Seed Round, Led By First Round Capital, Launches Competition To Grow Community Of Smart Object Developers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Meals Marketplace Munchery Raises $4 Million For Expansion, Now Delivering High-Quality Meals To All Of Bay Area, L.A. In 2013 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Uber Co-Founder Garrett Camp Launches BlackJet, The “Uber For Private Jets” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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8. VHX Raises $1.25 Million From Lerer Ventures And Angels To Democratize Video Distribution Online (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Wantful Raises $5.5M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
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12. Car Rental Marketplace Getaround Gets Around $3.4 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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14. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Travel Site Hipmunk Raises $1M Seed Funding (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
16. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. SendGrid Raises $5 Million, Sends A Bajillion E-mails (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding (blog.typekit.com) [edit]
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20. Feel The DailyBurn: Gyminee Gets A New Name, Raises $525K (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Foodzie Raises $1 Million For Its Specialty Food Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. techcrunch.com [edit]