Atlassian is a software company based in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 which makes business enterprise software, targeted at software developers. On 1 September 2010, the World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....

 announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.

Products

The Atlassian products Crucible

Crucible (software)

Crucible is a collaborative code review application by Australian software company Atlassian. Like other Atlassian products, Crucible is a Web-based application primarily aimed at the enterprise, and certain features that enable peer review of a codebase may be considered enterprise social...

, FishEye, Bamboo

Bamboo (software)

Bamboo is a continuous integration server from Atlassian, the makers of JIRA, Confluence and Crowd.Bamboo is free for philanthropic and open-source projects. Commercial organizations are charged based on the number of build agents needed...

, Clover, and JIRA Studio

Jira studio

JIRA Studio is an integrated, hosted software development suite developed by Atlassian Software Systems. JIRA Studio includes Subversion for revision control, JIRA for issue tracking and bug tracking, Confluence for content management, GreenHopper for agile planning and management, Bamboo for...

 are targeted at programmers working with a code base. Atlassian also produces tools such as its popular wiki

Wiki

A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...

 Confluence

Confluence (software)

Confluence is an enterprise wiki software. Written in Java and mainly used in corporate environments, Confluence is developed and marketed by Atlassian. Confluence is sold as either on-premises software or as a hosted solution...

, and bug and issue tracker

Issue tracking system

An issue tracking system is a computer software package that manages and maintains lists of issues, as needed by an organization...

 JIRA

JIRA

Jira may refer to:* JIRA, software-engineering package* Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis* Jira, also known as Zilla, fictional character* Jira * Jira...

 that are targeted more generally. Atlassian is particularly well known for focusing on serving Agile software development

Agile software development

Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams...

, as well as practicing Agile itself.

Atlassian has been described as an enterprise social software

Enterprise social software

Enterprise social software , comprises social software as used in "enterprise" contexts. It includes social and networked modifications to corporate intranets and other classic software platforms used by large companies to organize their communication...

 vendor. Atlassian products are not open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 for the most part, but are sold under a license which permits customers to view and modify code so long as they don't redistribute or resell it.

On 29 September 2010, Atlassian bought Bitbucket

Bitbucket

Bitbucket is a web-based hosting service for projects that use either the Mercurial or Git revision control systems. Bitbucket offers both commercial plans and free accounts...

, a web-based hosting service for projects that use both the Mercurial

Mercurial

Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is mainly implemented using the Python programming language, but includes a binary diff implementation written in C. It is supported on Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Linux...

 and the Git

Git (software)

Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on...

 revision control system.

Company

Atlassian was founded in Sydney in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, who met while studying at the University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

. The company made $59 million in revenue in 2011, is on a $100 million run rate for the current fiscal year and has 26,000 customers globally. It now also has offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

 and Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

.

The company was self-funded

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping or booting refers to a group of metaphors that share a common meaning: a self-sustaining process that proceeds without external help....

 for many years, starting with a $10,000 credit card

Credit card

A credit card is a small plastic card issued to users as a system of payment. It allows its holder to buy goods and services based on the holder's promise to pay for these goods and services...

 taken out by the founders, but in July 2010 it raised its first institutional funding: $60 million in venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 from Accel Partners

Accel Partners

Accel Partners is a global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai....

.. On June 24, 2011, Atlassian announced its first big investment in another company: Cloud9, a SaaS-based IDE platform.

People

Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO

Scott Farquhar, CEO

Jay Simons, President

Alex Estevez, CFO

Magda Walczak, VP Marketing

Daniel Freeman, VP Product Marketing

Jean-Michel Liemieux, VP Engineering

Audra Eng, VP Product Management

Andrew Rallings, VP Operations

Joris Luijke, VP Talent