Atlassian develops collaboration, work-management and developer software used by software teams to track issues, coordinate work and share knowledge. Founded in Sydney in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, the company began with $10,000 in startup capital put on a credit card and grew from a single developer-focused application into a broad product portfolio. It now employs more than 12,000 people and operates across 14 countries.
The product line is anchored by Jira, the issue-tracking and project-management tool that became the foundation of the company and was originally built for developer teams. Around it sit Confluence for knowledge sharing, Trello for work management, Loom for asynchronous video communication, Bitbucket for code collaboration and version control, and Jira Service Management for teams delivering services. Rovo AI is the company's AI platform, designed to connect teams, applications, knowledge and AI agents within its system of work.
Technical work spans issue tracking, project and work management, collaboration software, knowledge sharing, developer tools, IT service management and AI agents. Atlassian serves more than 300,000 organizations globally, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across the software development, technology, enterprise collaboration and IT service management sectors.
The company places emphasis on distributed work, customer focus and responsible corporate giving.
