Founder of a listed tool

Matthew O’Riordan

CEO and Technical Co-founder, named behind the Ably listing on Anchor Terminal.

CEO and Technical Co-founder

Matthew O'Riordan is CEO and technical co-founder of Ably, a realtime messaging and data-streaming platform he launched with Paddy Byers in 2016. He has worked as a software engineer for more than 20 years, many of them as a CTO, and previously started and exited two tech businesses.

What Matthew builds

  • Ably BB · Event delivery & webhooks

    Hosted realtime messaging from Ably Realtime Ltd in London. Clients publish and subscribe on channels over WebSocket, SSE or MQTT, with a REST API, presence, message history, outbound and inbound webhooks, and AMQP queues.

    CEO and Technical Co-founder, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it

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Who is Matthew O’Riordan?

Matthew O'Riordan is CEO and technical co-founder of Ably, a realtime messaging and data-streaming platform he launched with Paddy Byers in 2016. He has worked as a software engineer for more than 20 years, many of them as a CTO, and previously started and exited two tech businesses.

What does Ably Realtime Ltd make?

Anchor Terminal lists Ably from Ably Realtime Ltd. Hosted realtime messaging from Ably Realtime Ltd in London. Clients publish and subscribe on channels over WebSocket, SSE or MQTT, with a REST API, presence, message history, outbound and inbound webhooks, and AMQP queues.

Who has invested in Ably Realtime Ltd?

The sources our research read name Forward Partners, MMC Ventures, Insight Partners, Dawn Capital, Triple Point and Digital Horizon.

How are Matthew's tools graded?

Ably is graded BB, 75.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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