WooCommerce is now part of Automattic family.
WooCommerce had been the most popular and powerful ecommerce platform. It’s been downloaded more than 7 million time. WooCOmmerce had been my personal favourite for wordpress ecommerce development.
The blog published on WooCommerce site had stated that the main reason for joining Automattic had been that they match the company’s values as well as ambition that will help them grow and get more sophisticated.
More details can be found in here.