Online publishing software producer Automattic has acquired Frontity, a Spain-based WordPress site development tool provider it had previously backed, for an undisclosed amount.
Frontity has built an open-source framework that helps the users of Automattic-owned blogging platform WordPress integrate the React JavaScript library into their own websites.
As a part of Automattic, the Frontity team will focus on contributing to the WordPress open-source project and assist in improving its full site editor Gutenberg.
Automattic led a $1.1m funding round for the business in April 2020 that also included venture capital firm K Fund and Spain-based angel investors.
K Fund had led a $470,000 round backed by undisclosed angel investors in 2018.
The company was incubated by SeedRocket and joined the Google for Startups Residency programme.
Matías Ventura, an engineer and lead architect of the Gutenberg project at Automattic, said: “I am really impressed with the effort and care the Frontity team has put into their work over the past few years.
“We are at the cusp of exciting new opportunities with Gutenberg and I cannot wait to start collaborating together on making the experience of developing with it a joy to behold.”