Atlassian

Long before product-led growth became a buzzword, Atlassian offered free tiers for virtually all of its productivity and developer tools. Today, that mostly means free access for up to 10…

Atlassian now gives startups a year of free access

During its Team ’24 conference in Las Vegas, Atlassian today launched Rovo, its new AI assistant. Rovo can take data from first- and third-party tools and make it easily accessible…

Atlassian launches Rovo, its new AI teammate

At its Team ’24 event in Las Vegas, Atlassian today announced that it is combining Jira Software with Jira Work Management into a single product under the “Jira” brand. The…

Atlassian combines Jira Software and Work Management tools

Australian software giant Atlassian has warned of a critical security flaw that could lead to “significant data loss” for customers, just weeks after state-backed hackers targeted its products. In an…

Atlassian urges customers to take ‘immediate action’ to protect against data-loss security bug

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Was Loom’s $975M exit a fair price?

When Atlassian announced it was buying Loom for $975 million last week, it turns out after close analysis that it was a good deal for all concerned.

Was Loom’s $975M exit a fair price?

Atlassian announced this morning that it is acquiring video messaging service Loom for $975 million, the same company that had a $1.53 billion valuation in May 2021 when it announced…

Atlassian to acquire former unicorn Loom for $975M

Microsoft says Chinese state-backed hackers are exploiting a “critical”-rated zero-day vulnerability in Atlassian software to break into customer systems. The technology giant’s threat intelligence team said in a post on…

State-backed hackers are exploiting new ‘critical’ Atlassian zero-day bug

The goal of Atlassian’s CTO, Rajeev Rajan, and that of the two CEOs is to create one of the top tech companies at the world.

Atlassian CTO: We were late moving to the cloud, on the ball with AI

Atlassian today announced the launch of Atlassian Intelligence, the company’s AI-driven “virtual teammate” that leverages the company’s own models in conjunction with OpenAI’s large language models to create custom teamwork…

Atlassian brings an AI assistant to Jira and Confluence

Atlassian, the company behind tools like Jira, Confluence and Trello, today announced that, after a reorg a month ago, it is now laying off about 500 employees. That’s about 5%…

Atlassian cuts 5% of its workforce

Australian software giant Atlassian and Envoy, a startup that provides workplace management services, were at loggerheads on Thursday over a data breach that exposed the data of thousands of Atlassian employees.…

Atlassian and Envoy briefly blame each other for data breach

Atlassian today announced that Jira Product Discovery, its tool for helping engineering and business teams prioritize and collaborate on new product ideas, is now in open beta, with general availability…

Atlassian’s Jira Product Discovery is now open to all

The most important metric VCs want to see is non-linear organic growth of your product’s user base, including usage expansion within specific teams.

5 metrics Series A investors look for at dev-tools startups

During the pandemic as businesses moved online, Spinach.io co-founder and CEO Matan Talmi observed that engineering teams had a specific set of needs for online meetings than other teams. At…

Spinach.io wants to help agile engineering teams run better online meetings

CircleCI, the popular continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced a partnership with GitLab, the popular DevOps platform that also offers an integrated CI/CD service. That may seem like…

CircleCI partners with GitLab

Despite multiple overtures by the British government to woo tech companies and keep the largest ones from defecting to the U.S., the latest example of the failure of this policy…

London fails to retain Atlassian as it heads stateside in search of a ‘broader set’ of investors

When LaunchNotes founders, Jake Brereton and Tyler Davis were working together at Atlassian, they noticed that it was often difficult to communicate changes from the development teams to product teams…

LaunchNotes looks to transform how software product teams communicate changes to customers

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Investors have flipped their weighting of growth versus profitability

Battery’s new report, The Cloud Quarterly, provides insights on what type of public SaaS companies have seen their valuation take a hit or resist in recent months and what they have in common.

Investors have flipped their weighting of growth versus profitability

As the tech world inches a closer to the idea of artificial general intelligence, we’re seeing another interesting theme emerging in the ongoing democratization of AI: a wave of startups…

Baseten nabs $20M to make it easier to build machine learning-based applications

At its Team ’22 conference today, Atlassian announced the launch of Atlas, a new service for cross-functional team updates it previously offered as a beta under the name “Team Central.”…

Atlassian launches Atlas to improve team alignment

Atlassian today unveiled Compass, a new tool to help software teams keep track of all of the microservices they built and consume inside their organization. Tiffany To, head of product…

Atlassian’s Compass is mission control for software development

Atlassian today announced the launch of its new data lake and Atlassian Analytics, a front end for its data lake that will allow its customers to easily query all of…

Atlassian gets a data lake and analytics service

Okteto, a startup that makes it easier for developers to quickly spin up Kubernetes-based development environments in order to speed up their development process, today announced that it has raised…

Kubernetes development platform Okteto raises $15M Series A

Hasura, the company behind the popular open source Hasura GraphQL Engine that can turn virtually any database into a GraphQL API, today announced that it has raised a $100 million…

GraphQL developer platform Hasura raises $100M Series C

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Atlassian acquires Percept.AI

Atlassian today announced that it has acquired Percept.AI, an AI company from Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch that offers an automated virtual agent support solution — a chatbot, basically —…

Atlassian acquires Percept.AI

The company’s technology makes it easier for companies to create demonstration videos, called “arcades,” that walk people through how their tools work.

Arcade launches ‘try before you buy’ demo capabilities with $2.5M in new capital

Already a profitable company, Miro saw the venture capital market “favorable” right now, which gave it an opportunity to build an even stronger brand for customers.

Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding
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Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff

We’re on the cusp of seeing investing hypothesis backed by hundreds of billions in capital being tested. Not quite yet, but so very close. Watch the markets.

Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff

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