# The Browser Company

> The Browser Company is the New York software studio behind Arc and Dia. Arc reworked the browser around spaces, vertical tabs, split views, and a distinctive interface; Dia keeps the familiar browser frame but adds AI that can work across tabs, history, and connected services. Arc earned a committed audience but proved too unfamiliar and heavy for mass adoption, prompting a shift to Dia and, in October 2025, an acquisition by Atlassian. The company now sells Dia as a free browser with paid AI tiers for individuals and an enterprise proposition built around security, administration, and knowledge-work context.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Josh Miller (CEO and Co-Founder), Hursh Agrawal (Co-Founder and CTO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 100-130 people; LinkedIn lists a 51-200 employee band and showed 96 employees in August 2026, while the supplied company data lists 130.
- **Products:** Arc, Arc Search, Dia, Dia for Work, Dia Better Answers and Better Days
- **Notable:** Made a stagnant browser-interface category feel contestable with Arc's sidebar, spaces, profiles, split views, command bar, and automatic tab organization., Reached more than one million weekly Arc users across desktop and mobile platforms, according to the company's careers page., Raised $50 million at a $550 million valuation in March 2024, with $128 million in total reported venture funding.

## Products & services

- **Arc** — A free Chromium-based browser for Mac and Windows that reorganized browsing around a sidebar, spaces, profiles, pinned tabs, split views, themes, and command-bar navigation. It now receives Chromium updates but no active core-feature development.
- **Arc Search** — A mobile browser introduced on iOS with AI-assisted search features including Browse for Me and pinch-to-summarize; it later expanded to Android.
- **Dia** — An AI-native Chromium browser that combines normal browsing with chat across tabs, history, files, and connected tools, plus memory, profiles, splits, tab groups, sync, ad blocking, reports, decks, and meeting assistance.
- **Dia for Work** — The enterprise offering adds controls such as SSO, administration, MDM policies, organization-wide content-sharing settings, and security and compliance features for managed knowledge work.
- **Dia Better Answers and Better Days** — Paid AI plans launched in their current form in 2026: Better Answers costs $20 per month for contextual chat, while Better Days costs $100 per month for higher usage plus Morning Brief, reports, decks, recaps, and meeting support.

## Achievements

- Made a stagnant browser-interface category feel contestable with Arc's sidebar, spaces, profiles, split views, command bar, and automatic tab organization.
- Reached more than one million weekly Arc users across desktop and mobile platforms, according to the company's careers page.
- Raised $50 million at a $550 million valuation in March 2024, with $128 million in total reported venture funding.
- Launched Dia in beta to Arc members in June 2025 and developed it into a browser spanning contextual chat, memory, connected tools, reports, decks, and meeting assistance.
- Completed a SOC 2 Type II examination for Dia covering security, confidentiality, and privacy for calendar year 2025; the report was issued in 2026.
- Was acquired by Atlassian in October 2025 in a transaction initially announced at approximately $610 million.

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — The company stopped active development of Arc's core experience and explained that complexity, poor retention, performance, and the arrival of AI led it to build Dia separately.
- **2025-06** — Dia entered beta with early access for Arc members, centered on AI chat that could use open-tab context.
- **2025-09** — Atlassian announced an agreement to acquire The Browser Company for approximately $610 million and position Dia as an AI browser for knowledge workers.
- **2025-10** — Atlassian completed the acquisition of The Browser Company on October 20.
- **2026-03** — Dia shipped performance work addressing memory leaks, long-session slowdowns, command-bar latency, and resource-heavy animations.
- **2026-04** — Dia launched encrypted cross-device Sync and disclosed completion of a SOC 2 Type II examination covering calendar year 2025.
- **2026-08** — Dia introduced Reports and published a three-tier plan structure: free Better Browser, $20-per-month Better Answers, and $100-per-month Better Days, with rollout to most new Mac users beginning August 17.

## Links

- Website: https://www.thebrowser.company/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-browser-company
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/browsercompany
- GitHub: https://github.com/thebrowsercompany
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBrowserCompany
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diabrowser/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@arc_journal

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Last updated: 2026-08-22