## Press

We’re happy to answer your questions about Automattic, or about any of our products. [Drop us a line](mailto:press@automattic.com).

### Fact Sheet

Automattic wants to make the web a better place. Our family includes [WordPress.com](https://wordpress.com/), [Woo](https://woocommerce.com/), [Jetpack](https://jetpack.com/), [WordPress VIP](https://wpvip.com/), [Simplenote](https://simplenote.com/), _[Longreads](https://longreads.com/)_, [_The Atavist_](https://magazine.atavist.com/), [WPScan](https://wpscan.com/), [Akismet](https://akismet.com/), [Gravatar](https://en.gravatar.com/), [Crowdsignal](https://crowdsignal.com/), [Cloudup](https://cloudup.com/), [Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/), [Day One](https://dayoneapp.com/), [Pocket Casts](https://www.pocketcasts.com/), [Newspack](https://newspack.com/), [Beeper](https://www.beeper.com/), and more. With WordPress.com, you can create beautiful websites and blogs for free and enhance those sites with our premium services. A fully distributed company, Automattic has more than 1,451 employees working from 81 countries.

**Company Name:** Automattic Inc.

**Founded:** August 2005

**Founder & CEO:** [Matt Mullenweg](https://ma.tt/)

**CFO:** [Mark Davies](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/automattic-announces-mark-davies-as-chief-financial-officer-300939286.html)

**Staff:** 1,451

**Headquarters:** San Francisco, CA, USA

**Staff locations:** 81 countries, speaking 107 languages

**Key Investors:** [Tiger Global Management](https://www.tigerglobal.com/), [Salesforce Ventures](https://salesforceventures.com/), [Insight Venture Partners](http://insightpartners.com/), [ICONIQ Capital](https://www.iconiqcapital.com/), [True Ventures](https://trueventures.com/), [Wellington Management](https://www.wellington.com/en), [BlackRock](https://www.blackrock.com/us/individual), [Alta Park Capital](https://www.altaparkcapital.com/), [Addition](https://addition.com/), [Schonfeld](https://www.schonfeld.com/), [New York Times Company](https://www.nytco.com/).

**Status:** Privately held and independent, in later-stage growth phase.

### **Journalists, Please Note**

Automattic owns and operates [WordPress.com](https://wordpress.com/), which is a hosted version of the open source WordPress software with added features for security, speed and support. Please append “.com” when referencing our product name.

[WordPress](https://wordpress.org/) is open source software, which is written, maintained, and supported by thousands of independent contributors worldwide. Automattic is a major contributor to the WordPress open source project. If you would like to contribute to the WordPress open source project, learn more at [make.wordpress.org](https://make.wordpress.org/).

### Facts & Figures

Internal: [WordPress.com/activity](https://wordpress.com/activity/)

External: [W3Techs](https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management), [BuiltWith](https://trends.builtwith.com/cms)

**Company Photo** – [Download](https://automattic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-automattic-company.jpg "download")

Grand Meetup, 2019

**Matt Mullenweg** – [Download](https://automattic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020_matt_mullenweg_color.jpg)

Founder & CEO

### Recent News

- [Celebrating 20 Years of Automattic](https://automattic.com/2025/06/20/automattic-20-years/) On June 20, 2005, Matt Mullenweg made his first hire. And with that, Automattic was born.
- [Automattic Welcomes Clay](https://automattic.com/2025/06/12/automattic-welcomes-clay/) The platform offers unique value through AI-driven insights, comprehensive coverage, revolutionary search, instant notes and more, all designed to simplify the way we build and maintain relationships.
- [Automattic Donates $30,000 to Launch the Open Horizons Scholarship](https://automattic.com/2025/05/28/automattic-open-horizons-scholarship/) This new initiative designed to support WordPress contributors from underrepresented, underserved, and economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
- [Automattic Acquires Harper](https://automattic.com/2024/11/21/automattic-welcomes-harper-and-elijah-potter/) Harper—which is named after novelist Harper Lee—delivers grammar and language suggestions in under 20 milliseconds.

### Defending Open Source

- [Our Legal Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Complaint](https://automattic.com/2024/10/31/legal-response-to-wp-engine/) Read our most recent statement.
- [Protecting the Future of WordPress](https://automattic.com/2024/10/31/legal-response-to-wp-engine/) Read about how we are protecting the community against Silver Lake and WP Engine.

### 20 Years of Automattic

[20 Years of Automattic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fv4WQ-e-0E) - YouTube

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