We’re excited to announce that Atlassian has acquired Hall – a group chat service for business teams.
In Hall, we found a fiercely talented team that shares Hipchat’s passion for improving the way teams communicate. We both believe that real-time, group chat transforms the way teams collaborate, builds stronger culture, and helps teams get work done faster.
Hall has spent the last four years building a product that helps teams do exactly that – right down the road from our San Francisco office. As we watched Hall grow, we became convinced that we should tackle this mission together.
Starting today, the Hall team is part of the Hipchat family.
The Hipchat team has been pouring our hearts, energy, and a more than a few sleepless nights into a building a product that transforms the way you work. And this has made Hipchat into an industry leader in team communication.
In the last three months, we’ve introduced a brand new web experience for Hipchat. We brought Hipchat behind the firewall. We launched integrations with Jira, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting Free, Appear, Twitter, and more. We’ve made dramatic improvements to Hipchat’s stability. We’ve shipped updates for iOS and Mac and launched a new Android beta. And we brought Hipchat to the Apple Watch. As you read this we are furiously working on updates to Windows and Linux as well as multi-account support.
In the past month we also acquired BlueJimp, who will take our video chat capabilities to the next level. And now we’ve added the Hall team. We have ambitious plans for the coming year, and our new teammates will help us deliver.
You are going to love what we’re building.