Atlassian
Verified“Australian-founded, Delaware-domiciled, AWS-hosted — not an EU company.”
- Listing
- NASDAQ: TEAM
- Revenue (FY2025)
- ~US$5.2B
- Employees
- ~13,800
- Founder voting power
- ~85% combined
17 = midpoint of Control 17 & Data 17
Sovereignty Quadrant
Control ↑ who owns & governs the company · Data → where your data lives. Every dot is a company — click to open it.
Every number below traces to 15 sourced facts across 10 independent sources, last verified 2026-06-12. 3 open questions hold confidence at 88% — they lower confidence, never the score.
Control ↑
Who legally and economically controls the company
Legal & Jurisdiction
18
Incorporated in Delaware (redomiciled from a UK plc in 2022) with operations run from Sydney and San Francisco; EU law reaches it only via its EU sales operations, not its parent. Incorporated and controlled outside the EU.
Why 18? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Atlassian Corporation is incorporated in Delaware after redomiciling from the United Kingdom in 2022.
Businesswire - Atlassian redomiciliation completion · as of 2022-10-03
Each Class A and Class B share of Atlassian Corporation Plc (UK) was cancelled and exchanged for one share of the new Delaware holding company, Atlassian Corporation.
Businesswire - Atlassian redomiciliation completion · as of 2022-10-03
The board's independent committee retained US counsel Wilson Sonsini for the redomiciliation of Atlassian to the United States.
Wilson Sonsini (WSGR) · as of 2022
Control & Ownership
16
Founder-controlled via dual-class shares, but the founders are Australian and the stock lists on NASDAQ in USD — voting and economic control both sit outside the EU.
Why 16? 4 sourced facts · click to expand
Co-founder Michael Cannon-Brookes holds 48,024,933 Class B shares (50.00% of Class B) representing 42.59% of total voting power; co-founder Scott Farquhar holds an identical 48,024,933 Class B shares for another 42.59%.
Atlassian DEF 14A proxy (FY2025) · as of 2025-09-30
Each share of Class B Common Stock is entitled to ten votes and each Class A share to one vote, voting together as a single class.
Atlassian DEF 14A proxy (FY2025) · as of 2025-10-14
As of 30 Sept 2025 there were 167,238,849 Class A and 96,049,867 Class B shares outstanding, so each founder's 48.0M Class B is roughly 18% of equity — far below their ~43% voting share each.
Atlassian DEF 14A proxy (FY2025) · as of 2025-09-30
Atlassian common stock (Class A) trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker TEAM.
Atlassian DEF 14A proxy (FY2025) · as of 2025-10-14
Data →
Where your data lives and who can reach it
Data & Infrastructure
12
All cloud products run on AWS, a US hyperscaler subject to the CLOUD Act. EU data residency (Frankfurt/Dublin) is offered, but analytics data always sits in the US and Marketplace apps are excluded.
Why 12? 4 sourced facts · click to expand
Atlassian states its cloud apps and data are hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Atlassian Trust - Cloud architecture · as of 2026-06-12
Atlassian offers data residency that can pin in-scope Jira/Confluence data to the EU realm (Frankfurt and Dublin AWS regions) or a dedicated Germany option.
Atlassian developer docs - Data residency · as of 2026
Even with data residency enabled, all analytics data is hosted in Atlassian's US location, and Marketplace apps are not covered by data residency.
Seibert Group - Atlassian data residency explained · as of 2026
Atlassian Government Cloud runs in AWS us-east-1/us-west-2 under FedRAMP, illustrating its infrastructure is built on US AWS regions.
Atlassian Support - Government Cloud environment · as of 2025
Operations & People
24
Dual HQ in Sydney and San Francisco, Australian co-founder CEO, USD reporting, and a globally distributed workforce — the operating center of gravity is Australia and the US, not the EU.
Why 24? 4 sourced facts · click to expand
Atlassian is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and San Francisco, United States.
Wikipedia - Atlassian (citing 10-K) · as of 2025
Atlassian reported total revenue of about US$5.22 billion in fiscal year 2025, reporting in US dollars.
CompaniesMarketCap - Atlassian revenue · as of 2025
Atlassian had approximately 13,813 employees in fiscal 2025, distributed globally under a work-from-anywhere model.
Wikipedia - Atlassian (citing 10-K) · as of 2025
Co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes is an Australian based in Sydney, where Atlassian is building a A$1.4bn Tech Central headquarters.
Yahoo Finance Australia · as of 2025
Aligned to the EU Commission’s official Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL, Jun 2026) →
What we don’t know
3 open questions — they lower confidence, never the score
- ?
What share of Atlassian's user data sits in EU AWS regions vs the US, in practice?
EU residency is opt-in per product; default placement depends on user majority at sign-up, so real EU-resident share is unknown and could be low.
- ?
Does Atlassian use any EU-sovereign or non-AWS infrastructure for any EU workloads?
All public statements point to AWS only; an EU-sovereign option would modestly raise the infra score.
- ?
Exact reporting-currency and EU-revenue breakdown for EMEA was not pulled from the primary 10-K (SEC archive blocked direct fetch).
Would refine the operations score and the EU economic-footprint picture.
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework lens
The EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework targets cloud service providers, not SaaS vendors like Atlassian; this is an analogous sovereignty mapping, not a certification or formal SEAL assessment.
Strategic
Strategic control sits with Australian founders and a Delaware parent; no EU strategic anchor.
Legal & jurisdictional
Delaware-incorporated, NASDAQ-listed; primarily under US law, with EU reach only via GDPR over EU operations.
Data & AI
EU data residency offered for Jira/Confluence (Frankfurt/Dublin), but analytics data stays in the US and Marketplace apps are excluded.
Operational
Run from Sydney and San Francisco with a global workforce; no EU operational center.
Supply chain
Core cloud supply chain is single-vendor AWS, a US hyperscaler.
Technological
Platform and IP are controlled by the US/AU parent; no EU technological autonomy.
Security & compliance
Holds broad certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP for Gov Cloud) but compliance is US/global-framework-led, not EU-sovereign.
Environmental sustainability
Not evaluated in this sovereignty-focused profile.
EU alternatives
Berlin-based open-source Jira/project-management alternative; GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted cloud or self-hosted, data stays in the EU.
French open-source wiki, a Confluence alternative; partnered with OpenProject (2025) and supports EU/on-prem hosting.
Spanish open-source agile/Scrum tool; strong EU option but smaller scope than full Jira, best self-hosted for data control.
How the method works
Methodology v2 (provisional): the score is the midpoint of two axes — Control (who owns and governs the company) and Data (where your data lives and who can reach it). Each axis is scored only on verified evidence; unknowns reduce confidence, never the score. Every input below is sourced; the weights and judgments are open to challenge.
Spotted an error? Every claim is sourced — challenge it and we correct the record.
- 2026-06-12 — Initial golden profile, authored from primary sources (human + AI review).
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