WP Engine

About

WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting platform.

Austin,Texas,United States
1001 - 5000
https://wpengine.com

Highlights

Details

Last Funding Type: Private Equity（PE）
Last Funding Money Raised: $250M
Industries: Blogging Platforms,Content,Enterprise Software,Web Development,Web Hosting
Founded date: Mar 1, 2010
Number Of Employee: 1001 - 5000
Operating Status: Active
Legal Name: WPEngine, Inc.

WP Engine, the WordPress technology company, provides the most relied upon and trusted brands and developer-centric WordPress products for companies and agencies of all sizes, including managed WordPress hosting, enterprise WordPress, headless WordPress, Flywheel, Local and Genesis. WP Engine's tech innovation and award-winning WordPress experts help to power more than 1.5 million sites across 150 countries.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

6

$290.71M

WP Engine has raised a total of $290.71M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jan 4, 2018 from a Private Equity（PE） round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Jan 4, 2018	Private Equity（PE）	$250M	1	Silver Lake	—	Detail
Mar 25, 2015	Series C	$23M	1	North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity	—	Detail
Apr 1, 2014	Series Unknown	$32K	1	—	—	Detail
Jan 14, 2014	Series B	$15M	1	North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity	—	Detail
Sep 20, 2012	Series B	$1.67M	1	—	—	Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

4

10

WP Engine is funded by 10 investors. Silver Lake and North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
Silver Lake	Yes	Private Equity（PE）
North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity	Yes	Series C
Silverton Partners	—	Series Unknown
Automattic	—	Series A
Bill Boebel	—	Series A
Capital Factory	—	Series A
Dharmesh Shah	—	Series A
Eric Ries	—	Series A
Guidepost Growth Equity	—	Series A
Rob Walling	—	Series A

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles

36

WP Engine has 36 current employee profiles, including Executive David Vogelpohl

Executive

Employee

Employee

Employee

Executive

Acquisition

WP Engine has acquired 5 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was CloudMoxie on Sep 27, 2013. They acquired CloudMoxie for 0.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Sep 27, 2013 CloudMoxie	Consulting	acquisition	—	Detail
Jun 27, 2018 StudioPress	Blogging Platforms	acquisition	—	Detail
Oct 25, 2018 Array Themes	Blogging Platforms	acquisition	—	Detail
Jun 24, 2019 Flywheel	Blogging Platforms	acquisition	—	Detail
Dec 23, 2021 Frost	Software	acquisition	—	Detail