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Automattic
Its name a nod to founder Matt Mullenweg, Automattic is behind popular online publishing platform WordPress
At a glance
- Founded
- 2005
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- Other B2B Software
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Knowledge graph
News
Automattic board ousts CEO Matt Mullenweg, installs CFO as interim chief
Sep 10, 2026
Market map
Creator Economy companies
More headlines
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later15 investors entered at this stage
BlackRock
True Ventures
Salesforce
Tiger Global
Insight Partners
ICONIQ Capital- AVAglaé Ventures
Lowercase Capital- ACAlta Park Capital
- LPLP
- WPWellington Partners
- Salesforce Ventures
- AGAvant Global
- TTThe New York Times
- SASchonfeld Strategic Advisors
Ownership
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Automattic employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
VEVercelEst. 2015
Tony KovanenUnited States
Jeff HaraUnited States
Mike BlouinCanada
CYCyenceEst. 2014
Daniel WalmsleyUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
1 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Automattic was the backer or acquirer, 2008–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
32 deals across Automattic's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Automattic deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Automattic's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Automattic on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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