Atlassian is taking a new strategic step. After the acquisition of the French cycle yesterday, the Australian publisher of collaboration software announced the acquisition of The Browser Company, creator of the Arc and Dia navigators, for about $ 610 million in cashor 560 million euros. The operation, which must be finalized by December, aims to transform the browser into a central productivity tool in the era of artificial intelligence.
Founded in 2019, The Browser Company became known with Arc, a browser designed as an alternative to Chrome or Safari, integrating collaborative whiteboard and advanced management of the tabs. In 2024, the startup launched in beta dia, a lighter browser with an AI assistant capable of dialogue with several simultaneous tabs. These experiments, focused on productivity, attracted a basis for passionate users but still remained far from the consumer adoption.
With this acquisition, Atlassian intends to give Dia a new dimension by imposing it as Professional Reference Professional Board. The ambition displayed is to create an optimized environment for SaaS applications, enriched by a contextualization of the tabs and with an individual working memory, while guaranteeing confidence and security for businesses.
“” Current browsers were not designed for professionals, they were designed to do research. This agreement represents a daring advance to reinvent navigation, so that it is adapted to professional collaboration in the AI era “Explains Mike Cannon-Brokes, CEO and co-founder of Atlassian. He stresses that the combination of Atlassian SaaS expertise with The Browser Company’s product vision can transform the way of working online.
Josh Miller, co-founder and CEO of The Browser Company, shares the same conviction: ” For people working on computers, your browser is your work, where you spend hours spending from one tab to another daily. This context, associated with access to your tools, is extremely precious for AI. »»
Atlassian, who claims more than 300,000 customers, 80 % of which are fortune 500, wants to take advantage of its expertise in large -scale AI deployment, already used by 2.3 million monthly active users, to accelerate the diffusion of DIA.
Created in 2019 by Josh Miller And his team in New York, The Browser Company had already attracted leading investors such as Atlassian Ventures,, Salesforce Ventures,, Dylan Field (Figma) and Reid Hoffman (Linkedin). Its last valuation reached $ 550 million in 2023.
