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TrueUp
Trajectory Score
21
/100
Business
Open source CMS and blog software (creator of Wordpress)
Founded
21 years ago
August 2005
Employees
1,500
Valuation
$7.5 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#474
Company type
Private - Venture-Backed

Automattic is an Open source CMS and blog software (creator of Wordpress) company with 24 job openings. It is currently valued at $7.5 billion as a private company. 1,500 people work at Automattic. The company was founded in 2005.

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Jobs

Open jobs
24
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Marketing & Growth
6
(25%)
2.
Sales
5
(21%)
3.
Customer Success
4
(17%)
4.
Engineering (Software)
3
(13%)
5.
Sales Engineering
3
(13%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
🇺🇸 United States
24
(100%)
2.
🌎 Remote
23
(96%)
3.
🇺🇸 New York City
1
(4%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
GitHub
23
(96%)
2.
Salesforce
11
(46%)
3.
PHP
6
(25%)
4.
LLM
4
(17%)
5.
Javascript
3
(13%)

Financials

Valuation
$7.5billion
Tech Unicorn
Last round - Feb 2021
Latest secondary valuation
$1.7billion
77% from last round
Estimate as of Jun 16, 2026
Data source: Notice.co
Most recent funding
5 years ago
💸 ZIRP-era funding
Total funding
$986 million
Value 'created' (valuation - total funding)
+$6.5 billion
Valuation per employee
$5.0 million

Culture

Employee sentiment
Would recommend company
45%
500+ reviews
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
Worse than 85% of tech co's
Approve of CEO
Matt Mullenweg
33%
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
Company culture links

People

Employees
1,500
Source: Workforce.ai
Employee growth
+13%
past 12 months
Source: Workforce.ai
Automattic Org Chart
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Layoffs

Apr 2025 · 1 year ago
270 impacted16%

Open source

Open source at core
Wordpress
Top open source projects
27.5K
mongoose
21.2K
WordPress

Policies

Remote work policy
Fully distributed
Open jobs that are remote
96% (23 jobs)
Same pay everywhere?
(same work, same pay)
Yes

Top posts

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Job openings
24
Employees
1,500
Founded
21 years ago
Valuation
$7.5 billion
Trajectory Score
21
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Employees
900
Founded
14 years ago
Valuation
$4.0 billion
Trajectory Score
69
Job openings
143
Employees
3,000
Founded
12 years ago
Valuation
$4.7 billion
Trajectory Score
46