Self-Managed WordPress Pioneer GridPane Takes Strategic Investment from Automattic

These funds will help fuel our ongoing mission to help WordPress agencies solve their hosting problems and grow their businesses.

GridPane was conceived through the labor and strife I endured managing dozens of sites for my agency. By February 2018, we had formalized our product and built the GridPane team you know and love today. We found our passion for simplifying the management of WordPress sites across an array of hosting companies while providing the tools agencies need to run their businesses successfully.

In an industry dominated by entrenched billion-dollar players, our tiny upstart was never supposed to be able to shake up the status quo, although that was our stated objective from the outset.

Fast forward four years later, not only have we built one of the most versatile toolsets in all of WordPress hosting, but we’ve changed the game. I’m humbled to say that we now power over 100,000 websites operated by customers in over 100 countries – numbers that continue to grow each day. We proudly attribute this growth to word-of-mouth recommendations from our amazing community. Their ongoing and very vocal support across the wider WordPress community has enabled us to build the tools that have set the foundation for our future.

Without a doubt, none of this would have been possible without our incredible team, which continues to grow in strength with each passing week. In particular, I would like to thank our team members in Ukraine, whose stoicism and steadfast determination have inspired the entire organization.

I’m grateful for so many of the experiences that building this company has granted me, particularly the recent return to in-person WordCamps, which has allowed us to meet face to face with so many fantastic members of the WordPress community. For those of you who can make it, I look forward to meeting you at WCUS!