Investors
The money behind the landscape — every investor we track, and what they hold across hosts and infrastructure. Sourced from public records, locked from vendor editing.
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Pecunalta
Growth equity Cologne, Germany 9 holdings →Cologne-based investment firm with leadership overlap with Equivia Partners. Portfolio spans WebPros, Acronis, Hostinger, World Host Group, GoDaddy, Open-Xchange, and velia.net, plus LP positions in Oakley, CVC, EQT, Hg, and Silver Lake funds.
Hosts
World Host Group 
Hostinger 
GoDaddy 
Contabo 
velia.net Infra
Open-Xchange 
PlusServer 
WebPros 
Acronis - 2
Equivia Partners
Growth equity Cologne, Germany 8 holdings →Cologne-based growth-equity firm; per public investor records it holds stakes across WebPros, Hostinger, and World Host Group — the panel a host licenses and the platforms it competes with.
Hosts World Host Group Hostinger Contabo velia.net Infra Open-Xchange 
CloudLinux WebPros Acronis - 3
Clearlake Capital
Private equity Santa Monica, US 3 holdings →Co-owner of Newfold Digital (Bluehost, HostGator, Web.com, Yoast) and, with Francisco Partners, of Perforce.
Hosts
Newfold Digital Infra
Perforce Newfold Digital - 4
Automattic
Strategic investor San Francisco, US 2 holdings →Not a fund — a strategic operator-investor. The company behind WordPress.com and WP Cloud also takes stakes across the ecosystem, including GridPane and Extendify.
Infra
Extendify 
GridPane - 5
Cinven
Private equity London, UK 2 holdings →European private-equity firm; owns group.one (with dogado) via its seventh fund.
Hosts
group.one Infra group.one - 6
CVC Capital Partners
Private equity Luxembourg City, Luxembourg 2 holdings →Global private-equity firm; majority owner of WebPros (cPanel, Plesk, WHMCS).
Infra WebPros Acronis - 7
Madison Dearborn Partners
Private equity Chicago, US 2 holdings →Chicago private-equity firm; owner of Liquid Web (Nexcess, StellarWP, Kadence).
Hosts
Nexcess Infra Nexcess - 8
Oakley Capital
Private equity London, UK 2 holdings →London private-equity firm; holds WebPros and built World Host Group / hosting.com via the Webcentral merger.
Hosts World Host Group Infra WebPros - 9
Ontario Teachers'
Private equity Toronto, Canada 2 holdings →Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan; co-owner of group.one alongside Cinven.
Hosts group.one Infra group.one - 10
Silver Lake
Private equity Menlo Park, US 2 holdings →Technology private-equity giant; majority investor in WP Engine since 2018 ($250M).
Hosts
WP Engine Infra WP Engine - 11
Siris Capital
Private equity New York, US 2 holdings →Co-owner of Newfold Digital alongside Clearlake Capital.
Hosts Newfold Digital Infra Newfold Digital - 12
Addition
Venture capital New York, US 1 holding →Lee Fixel's venture firm; Automattic investor.
Hosts Automattic - 13
Alta Park Capital
Institutional investor San Francisco, US 1 holding →San Francisco crossover fund; Automattic investor.
Hosts Automattic - 14
Audrey
Founder vehicle San Francisco, US 1 holding →Matt Mullenweg's personal investment vehicle (audrey.co); holds a position in Automattic itself.
Hosts Automattic - 15
BIP Investment Partners
Private equity Luxembourg City, Luxembourg 1 holding →Luxembourg evergreen investment company behind the Namespace group (EuroDNS, hosting.de).
Hosts
Namespace - 16
BlackRock
Institutional investor New York, US 1 holding →The world's largest asset manager; institutional holder in Automattic's late-stage rounds.
Hosts Automattic - 17
Cloud Equity Group
Private equity New York, US 1 holding →New York private-equity firm focused on hosting and internet infrastructure; a World Host Group backer.
Hosts World Host Group - 18
ConHostinger
Founder vehicle Vilnius, Lithuania 1 holding →Founder/insider holding vehicle of Hostinger.
Hosts Hostinger - 19
CPP Investments
Private equity Toronto, Canada 1 holding →Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; bought ~20% of team.blue from Hg in 2024 (€4.8bn valuation).
Hosts
team.blue - 20
Emilia Capital
Founder vehicle Wijchen, Netherlands 1 holding →Investment vehicle of Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt (founders of Yoast); invested in Extendify in 2022.
Infra Extendify - 21
Francisco Partners
Private equity San Francisco, US 1 holding →Technology-focused private equity firm; equal partner with Clearlake in Perforce (Zend, OpenLogic, Puppet).
Infra Perforce - 22
Hg
Private equity London, UK 1 holding →London software investor; backer of team.blue.
Hosts team.blue - 23
ICONIQ Capital
Institutional investor San Francisco, US 1 holding →San Francisco family office and growth investor; Automattic backer.
Hosts Automattic - 24
Insight Partners
Venture capital New York, US 1 holding →New York software investor (formerly Insight Venture Partners); Automattic backer.
Hosts Automattic - 25
KKR
Private equity New York, US 1 holding →Global private equity firm; majority owner of Contabo since 2022, bought from Oakley Capital.
Hosts Contabo - 26
McCarthy Capital
Growth equity Omaha, US 1 holding →Omaha growth-equity firm; primary growth investor behind Kinsta.
Hosts
Kinsta - 27
Nebraska Angels
Angel syndicate Omaha, US 1 holding →Omaha angel syndicate that pooled the early seed rounds for Flywheel ahead of its 2019 enterprise exit.
Hosts
Flywheel - 28
Polaris Partners
Venture capital Boston, US 1 holding →Boston venture firm; early Automattic investor.
Hosts Automattic - 29
Salesforce Ventures
Strategic investor San Francisco, US 1 holding →Salesforce's corporate venture arm; strategic investor in Automattic.
Hosts Automattic - 30
Schonfeld
Institutional investor New York, US 1 holding →New York investment firm; Automattic investor.
Hosts Automattic - 31
Silverton Partners
Venture capital Austin, US 1 holding →Austin venture firm (Kip McClanahan) that provided WP Engine's critical early seed capital before institutional scale took over.
Hosts WP Engine - 32
Sofina
Holding group Brussels, Belgium 1 holding →Belgian listed investment company; minority investor in team.blue.
Hosts team.blue - 33
Tesonet
Holding group Vilnius, Lithuania 1 holding →Vilnius-based technology group (co-founders of Nord Security); Hostinger shareholder.
Hosts Hostinger - 34
The New York Times Company
Strategic investor New York, US 1 holding →Strategic corporate backer of Automattic from its early rounds.
Hosts Automattic - 35
Tiger Global Management
Growth equity New York, US 1 holding →New York crossover fund; a key later-stage investor in Automattic (part of its ~$900M raised).
Hosts Automattic - 36
True Ventures
Venture capital Palo Alto, US 1 holding →Early-stage venture firm and the foundational institutional investor in Automattic.
Hosts Automattic - 37
Wellington Management
Institutional investor Boston, US 1 holding →Boston institutional asset manager; Automattic investor.
Hosts Automattic - 38
Your.World
Holding group Amsterdam, Netherlands 1 holding →Buy-and-build holding founded by Dutch family office Strikwerda Investments (2016). Consolidates two operating groups — your.online (web presence and hosting) and Your.Cloud (managed IT) — spanning 45 brands and 90+ acquisitions; took an €800M strategic investment in 2025.
Hosts
your.online
Investor data is editorially maintained from public investor records and is not editable by the companies it describes. Stake sizes are not public in most cases — we record relationships, not percentages. Corrections welcome.