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April 13, 2006

Automattic Takes Funding

Michael Arrington

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Toni Schneider, the CEO of Automattic (Wordpress.com, Wordpress.org, etc.), gave more details on the funding that founder Matt Mullenweg wrote about yesterday on his blog.

No word on the size of the round, but Toni lists the investors: Polaris Ventures (Mike Hirshland), Blacksmith Capital (Phil Black, now at True Ventures), Radar Partners (Doug Mackenzie), and CNET (Shelby Bonnie).

Congratulations to the Automattic team. We run nothing but Wordpress blogging software on all of the TechCrunch blogs (list in left sidebar), and we named it a “company we couldn’t live without” a few months ago.

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  1. Bob

    April 13th, 2006 at 11:30 am

    Any chance contributors get a piece of the cake?

  2. Josh Owens

    April 13th, 2006 at 11:41 am

    That is awesome! Gratz to Matt and his company. We just posted our creative funding idea.

  3. Ted

    April 13th, 2006 at 12:18 pm

    I was a MovableType user from 2001 to the present (with some client sites which don’t want to switch). I tried Wordpress.com for a sideproject, and later switched over several blogs and sites to WordPress. It is amazing software! Frankly, it leaves MovableType in the dust, in my opinion. Not that MovableType is bad, it’s fine, but WordPress is in my opinion on another level.

  4. Saul Weiner

    April 13th, 2006 at 12:21 pm

    Honestly, this is a great company. There have been lots of web2.0 companies that have lots of hype but very little adoption. These folks did it all… now if they can make some money and ensure their survival, we’ll all be happy.

    Maybe they’ll follow MT into the business space. WordpressMU basically offers a business ready solution without sharing.

  5. Decipho

    April 13th, 2006 at 12:27 pm

    Congrats to them! Interested to see what they do with the money.

  6. Vaibhav Domkundwar

    April 13th, 2006 at 12:49 pm

    Read this on Matt’s blog - good news for a really cool company. WP is way better than most others and I hope they conitnue to innovate and bring us more tools like WP, WP.com and Akismet (though I’d love to see a way to un-block users/IPs that Akismet mistakenly marks as spam)

  7. Blaze

    April 13th, 2006 at 4:57 pm

    I wonder how they will make money exactly though. Will they go in the direction of Six Apart and create supported versions or Pro versions of WordPress or what?

    Anyone got any ideas?

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