Atlassian agrees to get browser Co. For $ 610 million

Atlasia She said she agreed to obtain Browser Co. , It is an emerging company that offers a web browser with artificial intelligence Features, for $ 610 million in cash.

Companies aim to close the deal in the second quarter of Atlasian, which ends in December.

Browser was established in 2019, and rose to some of the world’s largest companies, including GoogleWith chrome, and appleWhich includes Safari on its MacOS computers.

Startup appeared for the first time ARC, a customizable browser with a built -in white board and the ability to share groups of tabs, in 2022. It became Dia browser, a simpler option that allows people to chat with AI’s assistant about multi -browser tabs simultaneously, available in Beta in June.

The co-founder and CEO of Atlassian Mike Cannon-Grokes said he sees shortcomings in the most popular browsers for those who do a lot of computers.

“Whatever you do in your browser, it is not well presented by a browser that was built by name to browse,” he said in an interview. “It has not been built for work, she is not designed to act, and has not been designed to do it.”

Cannon-Bruooks said that ARC helped him feel that he is able to manage his work, by his ability to organize the tabs and archive old signs automatically.

But only a small percentage of people who used the browser bracket adopted the special features of the program.

“Our standards were like a very specialized professional tool (such as the video editor) more than a consumer product on the collective market, which we aspire to be closer to that,” said Josh Miller, co -founder and executive director of the browser. Update the newsletter. The startup has stopped building new features for ARC, which led to questions about whether the browser will be issued under an open source license.

Startup startup from artificial intelligence, which which Google offered 34.5 billion dollars of chrome, spoke with Al -Misplosh Company about a possible acquisition in December, Information I mentioned. Openai also held deal talks with Browser, according to the report.

Cannon-Grokes will not determine whether Atlassian is considering buying a Google browser. Last year, the US Department of Justice Proposal The federal judge spent after the company enjoyed the monopoly of searching on the Internet.

“I am not sure if there is a competition to provide bids for chrome,” said Canon Brooks. “I haven’t seen Google offering a auction yet. Look, I think we are focusing on actually completing the acquisitions and making these products a part of a whole coherent and providing value to our customers. I am not sure that Public Relations acquisition offers Stantt are really our thing, but we will leave that.”

Early access provides its artificial intelligence browser, which is called the comet.

The browser company reached 550 million dollars last year. Among the investors, Atlese’s projects, Salesforce Projects, Figma Participant founder Dylan Field and co -founder of ADEDEN Red Hoffman.

The browser is central to those who use Atlassian products, such as the Jira Project Management Program, which offers current support requests on the web. But the plan is not simply made the most beautiful work with ATLASSIAN products online.

“It is really related to the experience of the ARC application for ARC and the features of energy users, AI in DIA, elegance, speed and a kind of high nature, knowing the institution in Atlasian, and working on how to put all of this together in Dia, or in part of the AI ​​of the browser,” said Cannon-Bruooks.