Atlassian
Headquarters
Sydney, AustraliaFounded
2002CEO / Founder
Mike Cannon-BrookesEmployees
10000+Funding
PublicStock
TEAMProducts
2 products listedAvg. AI Score
8.1/10Website
www.atlassian.com/
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About Atlassian
Atlassian was founded in 2002 in Sydney, Australia, by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, who started the company without external venture funding in its early years. The company is dual-headquartered in Sydney and San Francisco and builds software used by development, IT, and business teams to plan, track, and manage work.
Atlassian's core products include Jira, used for issue tracking and agile project management; Confluence, a team documentation and knowledge-sharing platform; Trello, a visual task-management tool; and Bitbucket, a source code management platform for Git repositories. The company has expanded through acquisitions, including Trello (2017), Opsgenie (2018), and Loom (2023), broadening its offerings into incident management and video messaging. Its customer base spans small businesses to large enterprises across industries including technology, finance, and government.
Atlassian went public on the Nasdaq in December 2015 under the ticker TEAM. The company has grown to employ more than 10,000 people worldwide and reports annual revenue in the billions of dollars, with a business model built primarily on subscription and cloud-based licensing after transitioning away from server product sales.
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Products by Atlassian
All products by Atlassian reviewed by our AI panel of experts.
Agile project management and issue tracking for software teams
Team collaboration and knowledge sharing workspace
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Averaged across 2 reviewed products in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.
Competitive Landscape
Who Atlassian competes with, and how they differ.
Targets broader work-management use cases beyond software teams, with a simpler UI and less native issue-tracking depth than Jira.
Focused specifically on software teams with a faster, more opinionated issue-tracking workflow than Jira, but lacks Jira's configurability and enterprise governance features.
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A general-purpose work OS sold to non-technical teams via a visual, no-code interface, competing more with Confluence/Jira's project-tracking use cases than its dev-centric features.
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Spreadsheet-based project and portfolio management aimed at PMOs and enterprise operations teams, not software development workflows.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Enterprise work-management platform with strong marketing and PMO use cases, offering less native support for agile software development than Jira.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Combines docs, wikis, and lightweight project tracking in a single flexible workspace, competing directly with Confluence for team knowledge management with a simpler, less structured data model.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in Atlassian's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Agreed to acquire Loom for $975M
Atlassian agreed to buy video-messaging platform Loom for roughly $975 million to add asynchronous video to Jira and Confluence. Loom had about 25 million users and was last valued at $1.53 billion in 2021.
techcrunch.com - Milestone
Announced end of server licenses in cloud-first shift
Atlassian announced it would stop selling new server licenses for Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and Bamboo on February 2, 2021 and end server support on February 2, 2024, steering customers to its cloud and Data Center offerings.
theregister.com - Acquisition
Acquired Trello for $425M
Atlassian announced the acquisition of project-management service Trello for $425 million — about $360 million in cash plus restricted shares and options. It was the company's 18th and then-largest acquisition; Trello had roughly 19 million users.
techcrunch.com - Milestone
IPO on Nasdaq under ticker TEAM
Atlassian priced 22,000,000 Class A ordinary shares at $21 per share and began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on December 10, 2015 under the symbol TEAM.
atlassian.com - Funding
$60M first outside funding from Accel Partners
Eight years after founding, the profitable, bootstrapped company took its first venture funding — $60 million from Accel Partners — largely to provide liquidity to founders and employees and to fund product expansion and acquisitions.
techcrunch.com - Launch
Confluence team collaboration platform launched
Atlassian launched Confluence, a wiki-based team collaboration and knowledge-management platform, as its second major product.
en.wikipedia.org - Founded
Atlassian founded in Sydney
Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar founded Atlassian in Sydney, Australia, bootstrapping the company with $10,000 in credit card debt.
en.wikipedia.org - Launch
Jira launched as Atlassian's first product
The founders built the Jira issue tracker to solve their own bug-tracking frustrations and made it Atlassian's first commercial product. The name is a play on "Gojira", the Japanese title for Godzilla.
atlassian.com
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