inc. type private industry internet founded august 2005 headquarters san francisco california key people matt mullenweg founder ceo president products wordpress.com akismet gravatar cloudup polldaddy vaultpress videopress intensedebate plinky wordpress.com vip after the deadline simplenote woocommerce woothemes number of employees 478 website automattic.com automattic inc. is a web development corporation founded in august 2005 . it is most notable for wordpress.com a free blogging service as well as its contributions to wordpress open source blogging software . the company s name plays on its founder s first name matt . the company has 478 employees . 1 its culture was the topic of a participative journalism project by scott berkun entitled the year without pants wordpress.com and the future of work . 2 automattic raised us 317.3 million in five funding rounds . in the last round on may 2014 the company was valued at us 1.16 billion usd . 3 projects edit other projects include after the deadline online proofreading tool akismet anti comment spam system capable of integration with many blogging platforms and forums bbpress forum software blo.gs rss feed aggregator buddypress social networking plugin suite cloudup file sharing application ping o matic pinging service glotpress collaborative translation tool gravatar globally recognized avatars intensedebate a blog comment hosting service that was launched as a private beta in january 2007 by co founders jon fox isaac keyet and josh morgan 4 and launched as an open beta on october 30 2007 . on september 23 2008 automattic announced its acquisition of intensedebate s properties 5 and returned to private beta until november of that year.in 2007 intensedebate was selected to be part of the first class of techstars a boulder colorado based startup accelerator . longreads journalism aggregator 6 polldaddy polls and survey tools poster a blogging app for ios 7 simplenote note taking and sync service based on another automattic project simperium.com scroll kit a code free web design tool 8 wordpress.com vip enterprise services for wordpress websites vaultpress backup and security service for wordpress sites videopress hosted hd video for wordpress sites jetpack by wordpress.com wordpress.com features for wordpress.org sites woothemes premium wordpress themes plugins & ecommerce woocommerce wordpress ecommerce automattic s employees include matthew mullenweg and ryan boren two of the primary developers of wordpress . on january 11 2006 it was announced that toni schneider would be leaving yahoo to become ceo of automattic . he was previously ceo of oddpost before it was acquired by yahoo where he had continued as a senior executive . 9 10 in april 2006 it was revealed through a regulation d filing that automattic raised approximately 1.1 million in funding 11 which mullenweg addressed in his blog . investors were polaris ventures true ventures radar partners and cnet . on september 23 2008 automattic announced acquiring intensedebate . 12 two months later on november 15 2008 automattic acquired polldaddy . 13 on september 9 2010 automattic gave the wordpress trademark and control over bbpress and buddypress to the wordpress foundation . 14 on may 19 2015 automattic announced the acquisition of woothemes including their flagship product woocommerce . 15 references edit about us automattic scott berkun 10 september 2013 . the year without pants wordpress.com and the future of work . wiley . isbn 978 1 118 66063 8 . kara swisher may 5 2014 . wordpress.com parent automattic raises 160 million valued at 1.16 billion . re code . intense debate soups up your blog comments automattic acquires intensedebate longreads is joining the automattic family 1 2 yahoo exec exits for automattic ceo gig gigaom moving on from yahoo automattic toni s garage company information automattic inc automattic acquires intensedebate automattic acquires polldaddy a new home for the wordpress trademark 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