# Atlassian

> Atlassian is an Australian enterprise software company that builds tools helping teams plan, track, and ship work together. Founded in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, it is best known for Jira and Confluence and now serves as the collaboration backbone for software, IT, and business teams worldwide. The company grew famously without a traditional sales force, relying on a low-friction, self-serve model, and has expanded into cloud, IT service management, and AI through its Rovo agents and Teamwork Collection.

- **Founded:** 2002
- **Headquarters:** Sydney, Australia
- **Founders:** Mike Cannon-Brookes (Co-founder & CEO), Scott Farquhar (Co-founder & former Co-CEO (board member/special adviser))
- **Team size:** ~13,800 employees across 14 countries (2025)
- **Products:** Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, Trello, Bitbucket
- **Notable:** Bootstrapped to a multibillion-dollar company with a $10,000 credit card and no early venture capital., IPO on NASDAQ in December 2015 at a ~$4.37B valuation under the ticker TEAM., Grew for years famously without a traditional outbound sales force.

## Products & services

- **Jira** — Project, issue, and work tracking used by software and business teams to plan and ship work.
- **Confluence** — Team collaboration and knowledge-management workspace for documents, wikis, and shared context.
- **Jira Service Management** — IT service management and incident response platform for support and operations teams.
- **Trello** — Visual, board-based collaboration tool for organizing tasks and projects (acquired 2017).
- **Bitbucket** — Git code hosting and collaboration for development teams and CI/CD pipelines.
- **Opsgenie** — Alerting and on-call incident management (acquired 2018).
- **Loom** — Async video messaging for work, embedded across Atlassian tools (acquired 2023).
- **Rovo** — AI search, chat, and agents that plan and execute work across Atlassian and connected apps.
- **Teamwork Collection** — Bundle of Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Rovo positioned as the primary AI buying motion.

## Achievements

- Bootstrapped to a multibillion-dollar company with a $10,000 credit card and no early venture capital.
- IPO on NASDAQ in December 2015 at a ~$4.37B valuation under the ticker TEAM.
- Grew for years famously without a traditional outbound sales force.
- Surpassed US$5 billion in annual revenue in FY2025.
- Built one of the world's largest enterprise software marketplaces for third-party apps.
- Acquired and integrated Trello, Opsgenie, and Loom to broaden its collaboration suite.
- Serves more than 300,000 customers, including a large share of the Fortune 500.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Reported Q3 FY2026 revenue of ~$1.8B (up 32% YoY); cloud revenue surpassed $1.13B and remaining performance obligations rose 37% to ~$4B.
- **2026-01** — Rovo Service, a human-supervised AI agent for employee support and IT workflows, reached general availability; Atlassian expanded its multi-model AI strategy with Google's Gemini.
- **2025-01** — Launched Teamwork Collection bundling Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Rovo as the primary AI buying motion.
- **2024-08** — Co-founder Scott Farquhar stepped down as co-CEO, leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes as sole CEO; Farquhar remains on the board.

## Links

- Website: https://www.atlassian.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/atlassian
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/atlassian
- GitHub: https://github.com/atlassian
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/atlassian
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/atlassian/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Atlassian/

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