The Atlassian Mafia

By
khanak
Published
October 10, 2024

Founded in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, Atlassian is an Australian software powerhouse known for its collaboration and productivity tools. The company quickly made its mark with Jira, a project and issue tracking software for software development, and expanded its portfolio with products like Confluence, Trello, and Bitbucket.

Atlassian's successful 2015 IPO marked a significant milestone, showcasing its rapid growth and solid market position. Through strategic acquisitions and continuous innovation, Atlassian has become a vital tool for millions worldwide, emphasizing its mission to improve teamwork and productivity across industries.

Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar

The Atlassian Mafia

The Atlassian Mafia has founded 46 companies & raised $742 million.

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List of all the amazing companies covered:

  • Dovetail
  • Codefresh
  • Magical
  • Sleuth
  • Weel
  • Run The World
  • Okteto
  • LaunchNotes
  • SkySelect
  • Launchable
  • Dotwork
  • Notional Finance
  • Thrilling
  • Sunroom
  • Arcade
  • Wiivv
  • Podhero
  • Skip
  • Iteratively
  • Alectio
  • MonetizeNow
  • InOrbit
  • Taloflow
  • Kintsugi AI
  • Speechlab, Inc.
  • Sencity
  • Resmo

Dovetail

Founder: Bradley Ayers, Benjamin Humphrey

Atlassian Role: Software Architect, Lead Designer

Capital Raised: $69.4M

Investors: Accel

Stage: Series A

Dovetail is cloud-based user research and customer feedback software for the analysis, organization, collaboration and storage of data.

Codefresh

Founder: Dan Garfield

Atlassian Role: Head of Enterprise Marketing

Capital Raised: $46.5M

Investors: Shasta Ventures

Stage: Secondary Market

Codefresh is the world's most powerful CI/CD platform.

Magical

Founder: Rosie Chopra

Atlassian Role: Head of Strategy & Business Operations

Capital Raised: $41M

Investors: Greylock

Stage: Series A

Magical helps move data across all your websites or web apps, so you can get your time back.

Sleuth

Founder: Dylan Etkin, Don Brown, Michael Knighten

Atlassian Role: StatusPage Development Manager, Team Lead/Architect, Vice President of Product

Capital Raised: $25M

Investors: CRV

Stage: Series A

Sleuth is #1 DORA metrics tracker. Track engineering productivity metrics without spying on developers. Empower teams with insights and automation.

Weel

Founder: Russell Martin

Atlassian Role: Integration Developer

Capital Raised: $22.9M

Investors: Global Founders Capital

Stage: Series A

Weel is an all-in-one smart corporate card and spend management platform to streamline spend management metrics.

Run The World

Founder: Xiaoyin Qu

Atlassian Role: Marketing and Business Development

Capital Raised: $14.8M

Investors: Founders Fund

Stage: Series A

Run The World is a digital event platform that is designed to host all types of events from cocktail parties to global conferences.

Okteto

Founder: Ramiro Berrelleza

Atlassian Role: Architect

Capital Raised: $18.1M

Investors: Y Combinator

Stage: Series A

Okteto specializes in the fields of software development, software engineering, and the cloud computing industry.

LaunchNotes

Founder: Jake Brereton

Atlassian Role: Head of Marketing, Jira Software, Jira Premium, and Jira Mobile

Capital Raised: $16.8M

Investors: Insight Partners

Stage: Series A

LaunchNotes is helping accelerating the product teams of today, so they can build the great technologies of tomorrow.

SkySelect

Founder: Soufiane Houri

Atlassian Role: Director, Product Strategy & Corp Development

Capital Raised: $12.8M

Investors: Bain Capital Ventures

Stage: Series A

SkySelect is a parts procurement services and technology for $100B aircraft material industry.

Launchable

Founder: Harpreet Singh

Atlassian Role: Head of Product / General Manager, Bitbucket Cloud

Capital Raised: $12.7M

Investors: Battery Ventures

Stage: Series A

Launchable helps developers speed up testing while maintaining quality.

Dotwork

Founder: Steve Elliott

Atlassian Role: Head of Product

Capital Raised: $12M

Investors: Crane Nelson

Stage: Series A

Dotwork is a strategy platform bridging strategy and execution with real-time insights. Enhanced by AI for modern businesses.

Notional Finance

Founder: Jeff Wu

Atlassian Role: Engineering Manager, Analytics & Integration

Capital Raised: $11.3M

Investors: Pantera Capital

Stage: Series A

Notional is a fixed rate and fixed term crypto lending and borrowing protocol.

Thrilling

Founder: Brad Mallow

Atlassian Role: Support Engineer

Capital Raised: $10.7M

Investors: Prelude Ventures

Stage: Series A

Thrilling is an online marketplace that offers curated vintage and secondhand items.

Sunroom

Founder: Ellie Day

Atlassian Role: Senior Product Engineer (Trello Ecosystem)

Capital Raised: $10.4M

Investors: Blackbird Ventures

Stage: Venture - Series Unknown

Sunroom is a content management software that helps women make money from various sources.

Arcade

Founder: Caroline Clark, Rich Manalang

Atlassian Role: Product Marketing, Partner Engineering Team Lead

Capital Raised: $7.5M

Investors: Foundation Capital

Stage: Seed

Arcade allows its users to create interactive bits of their product that they can share on their website, blog, or social media.

Wiivv

Founder: Louis-Victor Jadavji

Atlassian Role: Developer Relations

Capital Raised: $7.5M

Investors: Eclipse Ventures

Stage: Series A

Wiivv is transforming footwear, apparel, and wearables for every human body, so you can move and live your best.

Podhero

Founder: Garret Heaton, Pete Curley

Atlassian Role: HipChat Founder / Engineer / Dev Manager, HipChat Founder

Capital Raised: $7M

Investors: True Ventures

Stage: Seed

Podhero is a social podcast player that allows people to discover shows with friends and recommend episodes.

Skip

Founder: Maghnus Mareneck

Atlassian Role: Associate Product Manager, Confluence Everywhere

Capital Raised: $6.5M

Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners

Stage: Seed

Skip is a infrastructure to enable blockchains to harness MEV to achieve financial sustainability and power better user experiences.

Iteratively

Founder: Patrick Thompson

Atlassian Role: Design Manager

Capital Raised: $5.4M

Investors: Gradient Ventures

Stage: Seed

Iteratively helps teams who rely on data to capture clean, consistent digital analytics they can trust.

Alectio

Founder: Dr. Jennifer Prendki

Atlassian Role: Chief Data Scientist, Head of Search & Smarts Engineering

Capital Raised: $5.4M

Investors: Notation Capital

Stage: Seed

Alectio is an artificial intelligence company specialized in DataPrepOps.

MonetizeNow

Founder:  Jeff Gibson

Atlassian Role: Engineering Manager - Cloud Platform

Capital Raised: $3M

Investors: Two Sigma

Stage: Seed

MonetizeNow is the world's first inified CPQ, billing and usage platform built For B2B SaaS.

InOrbit

Founder: Florian Pestoni

Atlassian Role: Product Lead

Capital Raised: $3.3M

Investors: ANIMO Ventures

Stage: Seed

InOrbit is a cloud-based robot management platform to help robotics developers and operators scale their robot fleets.

Taloflow

Founder: Louis-Victor Jadavji

Atlassian Role: Developer Relations

Capital Raised: $2.4M

Investors: Y Combinator Continuity Fund

Stage: Seed

Taloflow helps you find the best cloud and dev tools for your use case.

Kintsugi AI

Founder: Jeff Gibson

Atlassian Role: Engineering Manager - Cloud Platform

Capital Raised: $1.9M

Investors: Venture Highway

Stage: Seed

Kintsugi AI helps in automating sales tax for businesses globally.

Speechlab, Inc.

Founder: Ivan J. Galea

Atlassian Role: VP, Head of Data Science, Head of Product Management for Data & Cloud Infra

Capital Raised: $1.6M

Investors: AI Fund

Stage: Pre-Seed

Speechlab is making the world accessible to people who speak different languages using generative AI for speech-to-speech translation.

Sencity

Founder: Steven Bai

Atlassian Role: Design Team

Capital Raised: $1.6M

Investors: SOSV

Stage: Seed

Sencity designs, owns, and deploys connected infrastructures to make our cities more joyful and livable.

Resmo

Founder: Serhat Can

Atlassian Role: Principal Technical Evangelist

Capital Raised: $1.3M

Investors: ScaleX Ventures

Stage: Pre-Seed

Resmo provides cloud and SaaS asset visibility and security for modern software.

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