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Trello

Trello is a visual collaboration tool that provides a shared perspective on any project.

United States, North America Disrupt SF 2011

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Founded Date

2014

Industries
Education, Recruitment and Job Social Networking and Collaboration
Operating Status

Acquired

Website

www.trello.com/

Founders

Michael Pryor Founder

News About Trello

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Atlassian launches Atlas to improve team alignment

Frederic Lardinois

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.” The service is meant to be a central repository for what teams are working on — with those updates limited to a Twitter-like 280 characters. […]

AI

Atlassian acquires Percept.AI

Frederic Lardinois

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 — based on a proprietary AI engine for natural language understanding. Atlassian plans to integrate this virtual agent technology into Jira Service Management, its tool for […]

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Media & Entertainment

Runway raises $2M seed, launches its ‘air traffic control’ system for mobile app releases

Sarah Perez

Runway, a startup that emerged from the challenges that faced Rent the Runway’s first iOS team, is now exiting beta and launching its service that simplifies the mobile app release cycle — or, as the team describes it, offers “air traffic control” for mobile releases. The company has additionally raised a $2 million round of […]

Startups

New Relic acquires CodeStream to provide chat in developer environments, inks Microsoft IDE partnership

Ingrid Lunden

New Relic, the observability platform, has made an acquisition and is launching a new service on the back of it to bring a new dimension into bigger strategy to bring developers and operations closer together. It has acquired CodeStream, an application that works within integrated developer environments to let developers write related notes to each […]

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JXL turns Jira into spreadsheets

Frederic Lardinois

Atlassian’s Jira is an extremely powerful issue tracking and project management tool, but it’s not the world’s most intuitive piece of software. Spreadsheets, on the other hand, are pretty much the de facto standard for managing virtually anything in a business. It’s maybe no surprise then that there are already a couple of tools on […]

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Atlassian launches a whole new Trello

Frederic Lardinois

Trello, the Kanban board-centric project management tool acquired by Atlassian in 2017, today launched what is likely one of its most important updates in recent years. With significantly more than 50 million users, Trello is one of the most popular project management tools around, and in many ways it brought digital Kanban boards to the […]

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ClickUp CEO talks hiring, raising and scaling in the white-hot productivity space

Lucas Matney

Few young software companies have had as great a year as San Diego-based ClickUp. The company, which makes business productivity tools for task management, goals and docs, raised its first bit of outside funding in mid-2020. Just six months later, it has reached a $1 billion valuation after doubling its customer base and revenue increased […]

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Acapela, from the founder of Dubsmash, hopes ‘asynchronous meetings’ can end Zoom fatigue

Steve O'Hear

Acapela, a new startup co-founded by Dubsmash founder Roland Grenke, is breaking cover today in a bid to re-imagine online meetings for remote teams. Hoping to put an end to video meeting fatigue, the product is described as an “asynchronous meeting platform,” which Grenke and Acapela’s other co-founder, ex-Googler Heiki Riesenkampf (who has a deep […]

Venture

Atlassian launches a $50M venture fund to invest in its ecosystem

Frederic Lardinois

Atlassian today announced the launch of Atlassian Ventures, a new $50 million fund that will invest into startups — and even more established companies — that are building products in the overall Atlassian ecosystem. “As more and more customers transition to our cloud products, we are committed to supporting their journey by fostering a robust […]

Signage for Atlassian Corp. is displayed in the enterprise software company's Global R&D Center in Bengaluru, India, on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Atlassian Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Cannon-Brookes has said the firm will get all its power from renewable sources by 2025. Photographer: Karen Dias/Bloomberg
Biotech & Health

A pandemic and recession won’t stop Atlassian’s SaaS push

Ron Miller

No company is completely insulated from the macroeconomic fallout of COVID-19, but we are seeing some companies fare better than others, especially those providing ways to collaborate online. Count Atlassian in that camp, as it provides a suite of tools focused on working smarter in a digital context. At a time when many employees are […]

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Disrupt 2020 early-bird savings vanish in just 4 days

Alexandra Ames

Disrupt 2020 doesn’t arrive until September, but the countdown clock to early-bird savings winds to a halt in just four days. Grab this opportunity to attend one of the best tech conferences for all-things startup, cross this task off your to-do list and save up to $300. Simply buy your pass before the offer expires […]

Enterprise

Atlassian brings a table view to Trello

Frederic Lardinois

Atlassian today announced a number of updates to both its Confluence workspace and its Trello collaboration and project management tool. The focus here, the company says, is on supporting “the next phase of remote work.” Trello alone saw a 73% rise in signups in mid-March 2020, just as companies started shifting to work-from-home, compared to […]

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Jira Software gets better roadmaps

Frederic Lardinois

Atlassian today announced an update to Jira Software, its popular project and issue-tracking tool, that brings a number of major updates to the roadmapping feature it first introduced back in 2018. Back in 2018, Atlassian also launched its rebuilt version of Jira Software, which took some of its cues from Trello, and today’s release builds […]