# JetBrains

> JetBrains is a privately held software company that builds professional developer tools used by millions of programmers worldwide. Founded in 2000 in Prague, it is best known for the IntelliJ IDEA family of integrated development environments - including PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, GoLand and CLion - and for creating the Kotlin programming language, now Google's preferred language for Android. The company also builds team tools such as TeamCity, YouTrack and the ReSharper extension for Visual Studio, and has moved aggressively into AI with its Junie coding agent and AI Assistant. JetBrains has never taken outside funding and remains self-funded and profitable.

- **Founded:** 2000
- **Headquarters:** Prague, Czech Republic (registered HQ; regional HQ in Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- **Founders:** Sergey Dmitriev (Co-founder, former CEO), Valentin Kipyatkov (Co-founder), Eugene Belyaev (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~2,800 employees across global offices
- **Products:** IntelliJ IDEA, Kotlin, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider
- **Notable:** Created Kotlin, adopted as Google's preferred language for Android development., Grew to ~2,800 employees and 11M+ recurring active users without any external funding., Built one of the most widely used professional IDE families in the industry.

## Products & services

- **IntelliJ IDEA** — Flagship IDE for Java, Kotlin and JVM languages; unified into a single distribution in late 2025.
- **Kotlin** — Open-source, cross-platform programming language created by JetBrains; Google's preferred language for Android.
- **PyCharm** — IDE for Python and data science.
- **WebStorm** — IDE for JavaScript, TypeScript and web development.
- **Rider** — Cross-platform IDE for .NET, C# and Unity/Unreal game development.
- **ReSharper** — Productivity extension for Microsoft Visual Studio.
- **TeamCity** — CI/CD server for build automation and continuous delivery.
- **YouTrack** — Issue tracking and agile project management tool.
- **Qodana** — Code quality and static analysis platform for CI pipelines.
- **Junie** — Agentic AI coding assistant that plans and executes multi-step coding tasks; integrated with IDEs and GitHub.
- **JetBrains AI Assistant** — In-IDE AI features - completion, chat, generation - with a free tier bundled into IDE licenses.

## Achievements

- Created Kotlin, adopted as Google's preferred language for Android development.
- Grew to ~2,800 employees and 11M+ recurring active users without any external funding.
- Built one of the most widely used professional IDE families in the industry.
- Ships free professional tools to 1.8M+ students each year.
- Launched Junie, an agentic AI coding assistant, and a free AI tier across all IDEs in 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Junie integrated directly into the AI chat interface; IntelliJ IDEA unified into a single distribution merging Community and Ultimate editions.
- **2025-07** — JetBrains declared 'the agentic AI era' with expanded Junie capabilities, MCP support, remote development and GitHub integration.
- **2025-04** — JetBrains IDEs go AI: launched the Junie coding agent and a free AI tier across all IDEs.
- **2024-02** — Kirill Skrygan became CEO, succeeding Maxim Shafirov.

## Links

- Website: https://jetbrains.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jetbrains
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jetbrains
- GitHub: https://github.com/JetBrains
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/JetBrainsTV
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jetbrains/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/JetBrains

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Last updated: 2026-07-14