Automattic, through its A8c Ventures arm, makes corporate venture investments in promising private companies aligned with its strategic interests in open source software, distributed work, and the WordPress ecosystem. The firm invests across seed through Series B stages using equity, SAFE, and convertible note instruments.
Their most common stage is seed (42% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $16.2M (across 10 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
11
Fund Size
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Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
0
Team
JM
Jake M.
Corporate Development & Ventures Lead
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
12 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Openvibe | Unknown | $800K | Jan 2025 |
| OOpenvibe | Unknown | $800K | Jan 2025 |
 Appflowy | Seed | $6.4M | Nov 2023 |
 Bluesky | Seed | $8M | Jul 2023 |
 Nord Security | Series D | $100M | Apr 2022 |
 Cogsy | Seed | — | Dec 2021 |
 New Vector | Series B | $4.6M | May 2020 |
 Frontity | Seed | — | Jan 2020 |
 Hoppscotch | Unknown | $3M | — |
 Castos | Pre-Seed | $756K | — |
| Bluesky | Seed | $8M | — |
 Element | Series B | $30M | — |
Top Co-Investors
Protocol Labs4 shared
WordPress3 shared
Neo2 shared
OSS Capital2 shared
Notion Capital2 shared
Burda Principal Investments1 shared
Novator Partners1 shared
General Catalyst1 shared
Warburg Pincus LLC1 shared
Supercell Investments1 shared
GitHub Fund1 shared
Red Hat1 shared
Flex Capital1 shared
Bain Capital Ventures1 shared
Accel1 shared
RiverPark Ventures1 shared
Sugar Capital1 shared
Kfund1 shared
Alumni Ventures1 shared
Darkmode Ventures1 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026