no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . february 2015 wp engine wp engine logo 2013 present type private founded 2010 founder jason cohen headquarters austin texas united states area served global products web hosting web hosting service including managed dedicated server hosted service provider number of employees 313 website www.wpengine.com wp engine is a hosted service provider specifically tailored to wordpress websites and apps . contents 1 company overview 2 company history 3 critical reception 4 references 5 external links company overview edit headquartered in austin texas wp engine is a privately held company whose primary shareholder is jason cohen . wp engine has 40 000 customers 1 and operates data centers in the united states united kingdom and japan . wp engine was founded in 2010 in austin texas by serial entrepreneur jason cohen . when he started the company cohen saw a need for a wordpress specific hosting provider to fulfill the growing needs for increased speed security and scalability . 2 company history edit the company was founded in 2010 to focus on web hosting for wordpress . it has since grown to over 300 employees . citation needed in october 2013 jason cohen assumed the role of cto and heather brunner former coo of bazaarvoice assumed the role of ceo . 3 wp engine has raised a total of 18 200 000 from institutional venture capital investors silverton partners 4 and northbridge partners 5 and angel investors eric ries dharmesh shah joshua baer bill boebel josh jones loic le meur and automattic 6 . founded in austin tx wp engine opened an office in san francisco in 2012 san antonio in 2014 7 and london in 2015 . 8 critical reception edit wp engine s growth 9 combined with its focus on culture has earned it multiple awards for best place to work in austin 10 11 12 and individual awards for its executives . 13 14 15 it has also been recognized for its work in the field of managed wordpress hosting 16 17 and for its contributions to the open source wordpress project 18 and community . 19 whoishostingthis a hosting review website driven by dozens of individual customer reviews ranks wp engine s hosting service 4.5 5 stars . 20 the positive reviews praise the quality of customer service and the speed of the platform ; negative reviews cite difficulties in migrating existing wordpress sites and ssl certificates to the wp engine platform and lack of direct shell access to its servers . references edit wp engine announces new board and executive appointments wp engine november 2015 nut up or shut up a smart bear september 2010 letter to customers from founder ceo wp engine october 2013 silverton automattic put 1.2 m into wordpress hosting and security service wp engine techcrunch november 2011 wp engine raises 15m from north bridge growth equity to invest in product development accelerate growth techcrunch january 2014 automattic makes second investment wp engine wp tavern november 2011 wp engine opens an office at geekdom in san antonio silicon hills news july 2014 wp engine continues international expansion yahoo finance february 2015 wp engine reports record growth across customers north bridge report september 2014 wp engine 1 best workplace in austin austin american statesman november 2014 best places to work in austin austin business journal november 2014 austin s best places to work in 2016 austin business journal . retrieved 2016 06 29 . techflash titans cto of the year austin business journal november 2014 best cfos of 2015 wp engine s top money mind is growing a giant austin business journal july 2015 best ceos 2015 wp engine exec steers one of austin s fastest growing companies austin business journal september 2015 wp engine is innovating again chris lema november 2014 how wp engine triggered a revolution in wordpress hosting wpshout april 2013 wp engine to sponsor two full time wordpress core contributors wp tavern june 2014 high performance wordpress hosting wp engine review bourn creative august 2012 wp engine reviews whoishostingthis external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wp engine & oldid 733548964 categories companies established in 2010companies based in austin texasprivately held companies based in texashidden categories orphaned articles from february 2015all orphaned articlesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from june 2015official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 august 2016 at 15 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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