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Atlassian

Software & Cloud 40 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-09-22 METHOD V6.5
BDS-1000 Score 174 /1000 E Tier E - Limited
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 1.50 Political ↗ 1.99
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Key Findings

  • Economic: Independent Israel-based partners Methoda and matrix DevOps are listed in Atlassian directories for licensing, implementation, support, and related cloud services; the records do not identify their customers or attributable local revenue.1, 2
  • Political: An archived National Insurance Institute tender concerned Atlassian licences, maintenance, and implementation, but does not identify an awardee, value, deployment location, or defence connection.3
  • Digital: Matrix DevOps markets Atlassian Intelligence and Rovo-related services in Israel, without evidence that these products were supplied to an Israeli state, military, intelligence, or security body.2
  • Not found: No public evidence identified of verified Atlassian contracts with Israeli military or security bodies, settlement operations, Project Nimbus participation, or an Atlassian-operated Israeli R&D centre or data centre.4, 5, 6

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameAtlassian Corporation
JurisdictionDelaware, United States.7
HeadquartersGlobal HQ in Sydney, Australia; US HQ in San Francisco, California.8
SectorTeam-collaboration software and cloud-platform services, including software, service, and business-team products.7
OwnershipNasdaq Global Select Market, ticker TEAM; dual-class shares, with Class B shares carrying ten votes each. Entities affiliated with co-founders Michael Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar held the majority of Class B shares and, as of 30 September 2025, each held 42.59% of total voting power.7, 9
Key Executives / GovernanceMichael Cannon-Brookes, CEO and co-founder; Scott Farquhar, co-founder and board member; Shona L. Brown, board chair.9, 10
Israeli-Nexus SummaryDocumented nexus is limited to independent Israeli partner and user-community channels, an Israeli trademark registration, and civilian public-sector licence-tender records; no verified military, security, settlement, or occupied-territory nexus was identified.1, 2, 3, 4

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Atlassian is a Delaware-incorporated public software company whose disclosed business centres on cloud-based team-collaboration products and the Atlassian Cloud Platform. Its corporate disclosures identify Sydney and San Francisco as principal headquarters locations, while its shares trade on Nasdaq as TEAM.7, 8 The reviewed record does not establish that Atlassian was founded in Israel, is headquartered or principally managed there, is controlled by Israeli capital, or has Israeli government ownership or board-appointment linkage.7, 10

The strongest documented Israel-related economic nexus is commercial ecosystem activity through independent partners. Methoda in Ra’anana is listed as an Atlassian Platinum + Enterprise Solution Partner, while matrix DevOps in Herzliya is listed as a Platinum Solution Partner offering licensing, consulting, implementation, managed support, custom development, training, and related services.1, 2 Atlassian Community Events also maintains a Tel Aviv chapter. These records support the existence of local service, channel, and community activity, but do not establish an Atlassian subsidiary, office, workforce, Israeli revenue, customer roster, or settlement-related transaction.1, 2, 11

The reviewed material also identifies civilian Israeli public-sector procurement records concerning Jira/Atlassian licences, maintenance, and implementation services. The available National Insurance Institute tender material does not identify a bidder or awardee, supplier, contract value, term, deployment location, or military end use. It therefore cannot establish a defence-supply relationship.3 Atlassian’s Israeli trademark registration is likewise an intellectual-property fact, not evidence of an Israeli operating entity, physical facility, defence contract, or occupied-territory operation.7

No public evidence identified of a verified Atlassian contract or service agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, intelligence agencies, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or an Israeli defence prime. No public evidence identified of tactical or weapons-related product variants, targeting functionality, Project Nimbus participation, an Atlassian-operated Israeli data centre or R&D centre, or operations in West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights settlements.4, 5, 6 These findings are bounded by the reviewed sources and do not prove absence across all customers, resellers, contractors, or non-public procurement channels.

On the fixed, human-vetted V6.5 assessment, Atlassian receives a BRS score of 174, placing it in Tier E (Minimal/No Complicity). The score reflects modest documented commercial and political-context exposure through Israeli partner channels and civilian procurement evidence, while military and digital-security involvement were scored zero because the review did not verify the requisite nexus.

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
2001Atlassian states that its business name was registered in Sydney.10
2002Atlassian states that it was founded in Sydney and launched Jira.10
30 September 2022Atlassian completed its redomestication, replacing its former England-and-Wales parent with Atlassian Corporation, a Delaware corporation.7
July 2022Israel’s National Cyber Directorate issued an advisory regarding vulnerabilities in Atlassian Server and Data Center products; it recommended updates but did not identify any defence, intelligence, law-enforcement customer, contract, or award.12
2023Atlassian’s FY23 Sustainability Report stated that it disclosed relevant lobbying activity and expenditure involving third-party consultants and did not then make political contributions to political parties in any country.13
November 2024A Matrix community event in Israel included an “Atlassian AI ROVOlution” presentation, evidencing commercial ecosystem activity rather than state or security provision.2
2025–2026Atlassian Community Events listed activity through the Tel Aviv “Atlassian Community – Israel Chapter.”11
30 September 2025Atlassian’s proxy reported that Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar each held 42.59% of total voting power.9
30 June 2026Atlassian’s subsidiary exhibit listed wholly owned subsidiaries but no Israeli-incorporated entity.6

Corporate Overview

Atlassian Corporation is a holding company that conducts substantially all business through wholly owned subsidiaries. Its reviewed subsidiary disclosures identify entities in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, and the United States; the June 2026 exhibit does not list an Israel-incorporated subsidiary.6, 7

The company’s business is software and cloud-platform services rather than physical goods, construction, defence manufacturing, or infrastructure development.7 Its products are described for software, service, and business teams. The reviewed disclosures do not identify Israeli facilities, an Israeli R&D centre, a data centre, an Israeli acquisition, an Israeli venture investment, or co-development with an Israeli research institution.5, 6

The available Israel-related commercial record consists principally of independent channel partners. Methoda and matrix DevOps are listed in Atlassian partner directories, but those listings do not establish subsidiary status, customer identities, government contracts, revenue, settlement activity, or military end use.1, 2 Atlassian’s reseller policy permits unaffiliated resellers and official partners to purchase products directly for end customers, but it does not identify Israeli end customers or settlement transactions.14

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of an Atlassian contract, tender award, framework agreement, or memorandum with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, intelligence agencies, or another Israeli security body.4 The reviewed Ministry of Defense portal did not provide a searchable Atlassian award, and its authenticated supplier-interface character limits public-procurement visibility.15

No public evidence identified that Atlassian manufactures, integrates, maintains, or supplies components for Israeli weapons systems, munitions, missile defence, aircraft, armoured vehicles, naval systems, targeting systems, or other strategic platforms. No public evidence identified that an Atlassian product was designed to produce targeting decisions or weapons effects.4

No public evidence identified of purpose-built supply, co-development, technology transfer, licensed manufacturing, or specialist services involving Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or another identified Israeli defence prime.4 No public evidence identified that Atlassian products or equipment were used in settlement construction, the separation barrier, demolitions, checkpoints, detention facilities, military installations, or related infrastructure in occupied Palestinian territory or the Golan Heights.4

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that Atlassian’s disclosed business is civilian enterprise software and cloud-platform services, not defence manufacturing or military contracting.7 The identified National Insurance Institute records concern ordinary licences, maintenance, and implementation services; they do not establish a military end user or a Military relationship.3

The absence findings are not conclusive proof of non-involvement. The Ministry of Defense supplier portal has limited public visibility, and the SIBAT directory is expressly non-exhaustive; an unlisted company cannot be treated as affirmatively cleared solely on that basis.15, 16

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Atlassian’s historical SOC 2 description identified CyberArk as an access-management system and Snyk/SourceClear as tools for scanning open-source libraries. AWS was identified as infrastructure and storage support for the Atlassian platform.19 The document did not mention Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, or SentinelOne; that is a document-scoped absence, not proof that no relationship existed elsewhere.19

Atlassian’s current disclosures identify AWS as hosting and infrastructure support for major Cloud products. Its data-residency documentation says unpinned Cloud-app data can be dynamically assigned and moved among Atlassian AWS regions, while Israel is not listed as a selectable residency location. The documentation does not establish whether any particular unpinned tenant is processed in Israel.5, 20

Matrix DevOps markets Atlassian Intelligence and Rovo-related services in Israel. This establishes commercial ecosystem activity around those products, not provision to an Israeli state, military, intelligence, or security body.2 No public evidence identified that Atlassian AI, machine-learning, computer-vision, autonomous, target-generation, tracking, or surveillance systems were provided to Israeli security bodies or trained on Israeli or occupied-territory civilian data.5, 19

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of Atlassian participation in Project Nimbus, an Atlassian-operated or leased Israeli data centre, or a verified contract with Israeli defence, intelligence, or security bodies.4, 5, 6 Atlassian Government Cloud is described as U.S.-resident, with listed subprocessors processing data in the United States.5, 20

However, product, data-residency, subprocessor, office, and subsidiary disclosures do not rule out sales through partners, customer self-hosting, remote employees, contractors, minority investments, or other non-subsidiary activity. The negative findings therefore remain bounded by the reviewed materials.5, 6

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

The documented economic nexus is an Israeli commercial ecosystem rather than an Israeli subsidiary, facility, or disclosed direct state contract. Methoda and matrix DevOps are independent Israeli partner intermediaries listed for Atlassian cloud-related services, including licensing and implementation.1, 2 Atlassian’s reseller policy provides a general mechanism for unaffiliated resellers and partners to obtain products for end customers, without identifying Israeli customers or transactions.14

Atlassian Community Events’ Tel Aviv chapter indicates local user/community activity.11 The record does not establish an office, workforce, local revenue, tax registration, cloud-hosting geography, customer roster, or settlement-related arrangement.11

Atlassian’s annual reporting records an “Atlassian” trademark registration in Israel. This is intellectual-property protection and does not itself establish an Israeli facility, material Israeli revenue, physical-product origin, or operating subsidiary.7

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of Israeli agricultural sourcing, physical-product imports, Israeli physical-product origin, Israeli tax payments, Israel-specific profit repatriation, Israel Bonds holdings, an Israeli R&D centre, an Israeli data centre, or an acquisition of or controlling stake in an Israeli company.6, 7 Atlassian’s FY2026 revenue disclosure does not separately quantify Israel revenue, and its long-lived-assets disclosure does not provide an Israel-specific figure.7

The absence of an Israeli-incorporated subsidiary in the reviewed schedules does not exclude customers, contractors, remote employees, resellers, or other non-subsidiary commercial arrangements. Partner listings establish channel presence but do not disclose local sales, profits, taxes, contract values, or economic contribution.1, 2, 6

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified in reviewed primary corporate records of a conflict-specific Atlassian public stance on Israeli military operations, Palestinian civilian protection, ceasefire, or humanitarian assistance.21 No public evidence identified of corporate financing, free-service deployment, logistics, infrastructure provision, political-action-committee activity, regional-policy lobbying, or asset mobilisation for Israeli military, settlement, or state-aligned conflict efforts.3, 13, 21

The available tender record concerns civilian statutory-body procurement. It does not establish state-security procurement, settlement operations, an IDF connection, or deployment in occupied territory.3 The partner record for matrix DevOps verifies an Israeli commercial channel but does not identify customers in occupied territory, Israeli military customers, or state-security customers.2

No public evidence identified of an Atlassian office, subsidiary, reseller location, property, contract, or operational activity in West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights settlements.6, 21 The reviewed UN and civil-society materials did not establish Atlassian’s inclusion in the relevant OHCHR settlement-business database update or the UN Special Rapporteur’s 2025 report; these are document-scoped findings rather than comprehensive clearance.21, 22

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Atlassian’s stated corporate origins and principal offices are in Sydney and San Francisco, not Israel, and its disclosures do not identify an Israel-specific corporate mission, state-held ownership interest, golden share, or geopolitical mandate.7, 10 Its 2023 sustainability disclosure stated that it did not then make political contributions to political parties in any country, though this representation was not independently confirmed as an ongoing policy.13

A July 2025 FEC filing lists Atlassian as a payee in a Democratic Party Committee Abroad disbursement schedule, but it does not identify Atlassian as a donor, political-action committee, lobbyist, or contributor.23 Absence findings concerning legal, regulatory, employment, content-policy, charity, and electoral matters are limited by the bounded source set and incomplete review of some registers and filings.21, 24

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic1.507.007.501.50
Political3.104.509.001.99

V_MAX is driven by Political at 1.99, reflecting the documented Israeli commercial-channel and civilian-procurement context while retaining material limits on directness and verification. Economic records the independently documented partner ecosystem, but no disclosed Israel-specific revenue, subsidiary, facility, or settlement transaction. The scale-free, evidence-only, human-vetted method does not infer liability from ordinary commercial presence or transitive relationships.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/1216382/methoda ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. https://partnerdirectory.atlassian.com/matrix-devops ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  3. https://www.btl.gov.il/About/tenders/Pages/ArchiveFolder/2021/MicrazT%288%292019.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650372/000165037225000036/team-20250630.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  5. https://www.atlassian.com/legal/sub-processors ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  6. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650372/000165037226000036/exhibit211-q4fy26subsidiar.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  7. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650372/000165037226000036/team-20260630.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14

  8. https://www.atlassian.com/company/contact ↩ ↩2

  9. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650372/000165037225000058/team-20251014.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. https://investors.atlassian.com/resources/investor-faqs/default.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  11. https://ace.atlassian.com/tel-aviv/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  12. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/alert_1473/he/ALERT-CERT-IL-W-1473.pdf ↩ ↩2

  13. https://s206.q4cdn.com/270053503/files/doc_downloads/sustainability/2023/fy23-atlassian-sustainability-report.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  14. https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/resellers ↩ ↩2

  15. https://www.online.mod.gov.il/ENG/pages/General/Info/start.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  16. https://mod.gov.il/media/otaeo2yv/%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9A-%D7%94%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%90_250811_080922-1-_compressed.pdf ↩

  17. https://www.atlassian.com/foundation/about ↩

  18. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/271537927 ↩

  19. https://www.atlassian.com/dam/jcr:5a28f9bc-7ecb-48f1-9663-5d260d3b3a63/Atlassian-Platform-SOC2-Type2_30-Sep-2022 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  20. https://support.atlassian.com/security-and-access-policies/docs/understand-data-residency/ ↩ ↩2

  21. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  22. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩ ↩2

  23. https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/470/202507209763735470/202507209763735470.pdf ↩ ↩2

  24. https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/individual-contributions/ ↩ ↩2