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Overview

TrueUp
Trajectory Score
30
/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
#452
Company type
Private - Venture-Backed

Automattic is an Open source CMS and blog software (creator of Wordpress) company with 27 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
27
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Engineering (Software)
6
(22%)
2.
Sales
5
(19%)
3.
Customer Success
4
(15%)
4.
Marketing & Growth
4
(15%)
5.
Sales Engineering
4
(15%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
🇺🇸 United States
27
(100%)
2.
🌎 Remote
25
(93%)
3.
🇺🇸 New York City
2
(7%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
GitHub
26
(96%)
2.
Salesforce
12
(44%)
3.
PHP
9
(33%)
4.
Javascript
5
(19%)
5.
LLM
5
(19%)

Financials

Valuation
$7.5billion
Tech Unicorn
Last round - Feb 2021
Latest secondary valuation
$1.9billion
75% from last round
Estimate as of May 5, 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

Products

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
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
21.1K
WordPress

Policies

Remote work policy
Fully distributed
Open jobs that are remote
93% (25 jobs)
Same pay everywhere?
(same work, same pay)
Yes

Top posts

Compare to other companies
Job openings
27
Employees
1,500
Founded
21 years ago
Valuation
$7.5 billion
Trajectory Score
30
Job openings
24
Employees
1,300
Founded
14 years ago
Valuation
$4.0 billion
Trajectory Score
70
Job openings
157
Employees
3,000
Founded
12 years ago
Valuation
$5.2 billion
Trajectory Score
50