Automattic

Not to be confused with Automatic.

Automattic Inc.

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Company type	Private
Founded	August 2005
Founder	Matt Mullenweg
Headquarters	San Francisco, California
Key people	Matt Mullenweg Ryan Boren
Website	automattic.com

Automattic, Inc. is a small web development corporation founded in August 2005.

It is most notable for WordPress (free blogware) and WordPress.com (a free blogging service). Other projects include:

• bbPress - Forum Software
• Akismet - An anti-comment spam system capable of integration with many blogging platforms and forums.
• WordPress MU - A multi-blog community system built on WordPress.
• Ping-O-Matic - A pinging service.
• Gravatar - Globally recognized avatars

Automattic's employees include Matthew Mullenweg and Ryan Boren, the primary developers of WordPress.

On January 11 2006, it was announced that Toni Schneider, Oddpost CEO before it was acquired by Yahoo!, where he continued as a senior executive, would be leaving Yahoo! to become CEO of Automattic.

In April 2006, it was discovered, through a Regulation D filing, that Automattic raised approximately 1.1 million dollars in funding, which Mullenweg addressed in his blog. Investors were Polaris Ventures, True Ventures, Radar Partners, and CNET.

External links

• Automattic website
• Akismet comment filtering service
• WordPress.com blogging service
• WordPress website
• WordPress MultiUser software
• Conversation with Matt Mullenweg video