Six Apart Ltd. provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate across the world every day. Founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott, Six Apart has grown into a global company with its headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and offices in Europe and Japan. The company continues to lead in the blogging and social media industry with the Movable Type publishing platform, the TypePad hosted blogging service and LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals.

Six Apart introduced the concept of trackbacks, enabling bloggers to easily find others who have linked to their blog.  This concept, as much as anything, has helped develop communities of like-minded bloggers and is a de-facto standard in all blogs today.

Meanwhile, today, it’s estimated that Six Apart has more than 10 million users across their three product lines.  The Company has done an effective job localizing their software and has struck partnerships with key distribution channels in the U.S. and abroad.  Six Apart's 50+ employees span three continents today.

Six Apart continues to innovate.  They've recently added a “tip jar”, another way for bloggers to potentially monetize their content beyond running Google ads.  In 2005 Six Apart unveiled Project Comet, an ambitious new platform that allows users to customize their blogs with streams from media including music, photos, videos, and even other blogs.

Six Apart is well poised to continue seeing sustained growth in the professional blogging market in the near-term.  And, as the leader in a key segment of one of the fastest growing content technologies, Six Apart is clearly one of the 50 Content Companies that Matter.