EllisLab is a privately-held technology company that develops cutting-edge web publishing software and provides world-class hosting used by thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world.

Our objective at EllisLab, Inc. is to build a sustainable business model that drives long-term growth through the development of software applications and ancillary products and services that enable people to use the internet in meaningful ways. We are currently self-funded, debt-free, and profitable.

Company History

In 1996, Rick Ellis founded a media development company to service notable clients like Disney, HBO, Universal, and others. In order to better serve his client's needs, Rick developed a number of scripted web tools. One of those tools was a small blogging application first used at Nancy Sinatra's website.

In 2001 the blogging program was released to the public under the name "pMachine" (Publishing Machine). Within a few months pMachine had been featured in major magazines like Mac World and Mac Addict, and in a book about Blogging published by McGraw/Hill, forcing Rick to focus full-time on his fledgling software company. Over the past six years the company had grown rapidly.

In 2002 we launched a full-service hosting company designed specifically for the needs of dynamic, database-driven sites.

In 2004 we released our next-generation publishing system, ExpressionEngine, offering an unmatched level of power and flexibility for online publishers.

In 2006 we released CodeIgniter, a web application development platform for PHP developers.

In 2007 the name of the company was changed to EllisLab, Inc., to better reflect its growing range of products and services.