Atlassian Is Buying Arc Maker The Browser Company For $610 Million

The Browser Company — nan shaper of nan Arc and AI-centric Dia browsers — is group to person a caller owner. Atlassian is buying it for astir $610 cardinal successful an all-cash deal, which it expects to adjacent successful nan 2nd 4th of its fiscal twelvemonth 2026 (i.e. by nan extremity of nan 2025 almanac year).

According to The Browser Company, it will proceed to run independently arsenic it builds Dia. A backstage beta for nan browser started successful June. Arc (a well-regarded browser connected which nan institution has ended progressive development) and Arc Search will instrumentality around, and a semipermanent scheme for those will beryllium revealed successful nan adjacent future.

Co-founders Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal are staying connected arsenic CEO and CTO, respectively. Miller wrote successful a blog post that they are looking to accelerate their ambitions by teaming up pinch Atlassian. "We chose Atlassian because their strengths complement our gaps," Miller wrote. "And astir importantly, for illustration us, they judge nan browser is becoming nan caller operating system." The Browser Company plans to bring Dia to "to each level faster than we could person antecedently imagined" successful nan coming months.

Miller said nan institution had 3 conditions for immoderate acquisition: to guarantee it remained independent, that each of its squad members still had a occupation and that its "vision for Dia remains astatine nan center." He added that "a ample portion of why we chose Atlassian is values. Now much than ever. Not nan benignant you bent connected a wall, but nan ones you spot successful nan activity itself."

Atlassian is nan proprietor of productivity and endeavor services specified arsenic task guidance apps Jira and Trello (which has been buggy for maine for complete a year, for what it's worth). Last month, it reportedly laid disconnected astir 150 workers, galore of whom were said to beryllium successful nan customer work department, and was said to beryllium readying to usage AI to return complete immoderate of those erstwhile employees' tasks.

"Our imagination is to make Dia nan AI browser for work," Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said successful a video announcing nan acquisition. The squad is designing Dia truthful it's "optimized for nan SaaS [software arsenic a service] apps wherever you walk your day; packed pinch AI skills and your individual activity representation to unleash your potential; and built pinch spot and information successful mind, truthful you tin bring it to nan office. An AI browser for your strategy of work."