Atlassian Corp

Atlassian makes collaboration and productivity tools for software developers, project managers, and knowledge workers. Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar founded it in 2002 in Sydney, Australia. It has grown into one of the most influential developer tools companies in the world, serving over 300,000 customers with a unique low-touch, high-efficiency sales model.

The core products tell the story. Jira handles project tracking and agile development. It's the standard tool for engineering teams planning sprints, tracking issues, and managing releases. Confluence is the organizational wiki for documentation and knowledge sharing. Jira Service Management covers IT service management and help desk. Bitbucket hosts Git repositories and CI/CD. Trello provides visual project management. Loom handles asynchronous video messaging.

Atlassian Cloud is the cloud-hosted platform and main growth engine. As customers migrate from legacy Server and Data Center installations, the company unlocks recurring subscription revenue, faster feature delivery, and lower customer infrastructure costs. Premium and Enterprise tiers offer analytics, sandbox environments, org-wide admin controls, and data residency.

The go-to-market model is famously efficient. There's no traditional outbound enterprise sales force. Instead, customers buy through self-service online purchases, word-of-mouth adoption spreads the products, and a vibrant ecosystem of over 6,000 Marketplace apps pulls users in. Solution partners handle larger deployments. The result is consistently high gross margins around 83% and improving operating margins.

Revenue is subscription-based, with cloud subscriptions growing over 30% annually and making up an increasing share of total revenue. Annual revenue is roughly $4.5 billion. Marketplace fees and Data Center licenses supplement cloud subscriptions during the migration.

Atlassian Intelligence, powered by Rovo, brings AI to the platform. It provides AI-powered search across connected tools, virtual agents for service management, natural language query conversion, AI summaries for Confluence pages, and automated work suggestions. Rovo agents can execute multi-step workflows across products, automating routine project management tasks.

Key acquisitions include Trello at $425 million and Loom at $975 million, plus many smaller purchases. With about 12,000 employees and a strong engineering culture, Atlassian remains the backbone of software development at companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.