# Scott Farquhar

> Scott Farquhar is a Series A investor at Atlassian (Sydney) backing Software and Apps. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Atlassian](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlassian)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 32%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottfarquhar
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/scottfarkas
- Website: http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/scott/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scott.farquhar.54

Scott Farquhar is a Series A investor at Atlassian in Sydney focused on Software and Apps. Scott Farquhar is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, a collaboration software company that helps teams organise, discuss and complete shared work. More than 150,000 large and small organisations, NFPs, and government agencies across the world, including companies like ANZ bank, Spotify, Twilio, Mercy Ships and Visa use Atlassian’scollaboration products to help their teams work better together.In 2015, Scott helped spearhead Pledge 1%, a corporate philanthropy movement dedicated to making the community a key stakeholder in every business. Atlassian, and almost 4,000 companies around the world have joined the movement.Scott was the youngest person ever to be awarded the ‘Australian Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2006 by Ernst & Young alongside Co-Founder and Co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes. In 2016 both Scott and Mike Cannon-Brookes were awarded Australian Financial Review's 'Australian Business Person of the Year' and in 2017 Forbes named them on their ‘Global Game Changers’ list.Outside of Atlassian, Scott co-founded a private investment fund, Skip Capital, which focuses on fast-growing technology companies, with a particular interest in the intersection of big data and health. Scott holds a BSc (Business Information Technology) from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$10M |
| Series A | $1M–$200M |
| Series B | $12M–$100M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 16% |
| Apps | 3 | 12% |
| SaaS | 2 | 8% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 8% |
| Health Care | 2 | 8% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 28% |
| Seed | 4 | 16% |
| Series B | 4 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 12% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 8 | 32% |
| United States | 3 | 12% |
| Canada | 2 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Timeshifter | Timeshifter is the world’s most advanced circadian analytics and solutions platform designed to unlock unrealized human performance and improve our health and safety. Working directly with the world’s leading scientists, clinicians, and institutions, Timeshifter is translating circadian science into accessible technology solutions. In 2018,Timeshifter launched its first product — now the most-downloaded and highest-rated jet lag app in the world. Based on more than 80,000 post-flight surveys, travelers who followed Timeshifter's advice versus travelers who didn’t follow their Timeshifter plan were 16 times less likely to report very severe jet lag. Recently, Timeshifter launched a new app to help shift workers optimize their sleep, alertness, health, and quality of life. At least 20% of the global labor force are shift workers, changing to a new schedule soon after they adapted to the previous one, or never adapting at all. Timeshifter has received several awards and recognition, including the National Sleep Foundation's SleepTech® Award, Health Magazine's Sleep Award, and an honorable mention of Fast Company's World Changing Ideas. Partners include United Airlines, SAP, CTW, Amadeus, Six Senses, Tripadvisor, TravelPerk, Montblanc, and Haven Life. Investors include former NASA Astronauts Michael López-Alegría and Mike Massimino, Chief Medical Officer for Axiom Space, Dr. Smith Johnston, Chairman of Air Canada, Vagn Sørensen, legendary race driver with 9 Le Mans wins, Tom Kristensen, and entrepreneur and endurance GT car racer, John Shoffner. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Mr Yum | Mr Yum is a mobile ordering platform that provides a visual menu and tool for table ordering, pickup, and delivery. Its platform can make increase order sizes and also has marketing and customer analytic tools. These include a loyalty platform called Boomerang, which lets venues create gift vouchers, free item codes, and dollars or percentages. MrYum has 1,500 venues on its platform, including shopping centers, movie theaters, and airports in addition to restaurants, and 13 million users.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Collingwood, Australia. | $63.6M | Series A | Nov 29, 2021 |  |
| Reejig | Reejig is the Work Operating System for AI-powered work. Critical infrastructure for AI-powered work. The platform enterprises use to see how work runs, build AI workflows, orchestrate agents, and drive adoption.Reejig unifies work architecture, work context, and AI orchestration on one enterprise-grade system. Architects use Reejig to design amodern foundation for jobs, tasks, and skills built for humans and agents. Builders use Reejig to deploy AI into real workflows, track agent performance, and deliver every employee their upgraded way of working. Both run on the same system.Work architecture out of the box. Day one. Agent-agnostic by design, Reejig orchestrates any enterprise agent stack.Reejig runs inside Fortune 50 enterprises. Architects design the house. Builders make it real. We build the way the world works. | $6M | Series A | Oct 11, 2021 |  |
| Arinex | Arinex specializes in event and exhibition management, conference, marketing and social programs. | $10M | Seed | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Factor Bikes | Factor Bikes is an online shop that supplies an extensive array of complete bikes, framesets, wheels and accessories. |  |  | Aug 23, 2021 |  |
| 1Password | 1Password is a secure, convenient password manager, providing businesses and families a safe way to share passwords, credit cards, and documents. It keeps important information secure with AES 256-bit encryption. With 1Password, users can keep all kinds of information easily organized with convenient categories and tags and find what they need witha customizable search.Founded in 2005, 1Password remembers and fills web forms with passwords, credit card information, and addresses—with a single click. It is focused on making security convenient and keeping customers happy. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario in Canada. | $100.1M | Series B | Jul 27, 2021 |  |
| Tonkean | Tonkean is the OS for business operations, transforming operations teams from facilitators into makers with an enterprise-grade, no-code process orchestration platform. By abstracting the technical knowledge required to automate, monitor, and manage mission-critical business processes, while still maintaining compliance and security, Tonkeanenables enterprises to accelerate operational velocity at scale. | $50M | Series B | Jun 24, 2021 |  |
| Pyn | Pyn is a human resources company that improves employee communications using marketing techniques, such as personalization, scheduling, and automated triggering. It specializes in the fields of employee engagement, human, employment, and training. Pyn improves employee communications using marketing techniques such as personalization, scheduling,and automated triggering.Pyn’s employee-centric communication tool cuts through the clutter of messages in order to send only relevant and well-timed messages at key moments.It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. | $8M | Seed | May 27, 2021 |  |
| Brighte | Brighte is a digital payments platform for home energy improvements. It was launched in 2015 by Katherine McConnell, with the mission to help people create energy efficient homes. Brighte offers 0% interest payment plans that remove the upfront cost barrier of big ticket items like solar and batteries for homeowners. On the flipside, vendorsreceive the prompt lump sum payment they need as soon as they complete the job. Brighte is backed by Grok Investments, Airtree Ventures and Skip Capital as well as strategic supporters KPMG, Equifax, IBM and Stone and Chalk. Brighte is a leading Australian fintech company and has been widely recognised for its innovative, distruptive offering in the home improvements market. | $65.3M | Series C | Dec 17, 2020 |  |
| Pyn | Pyn is a human resources company that improves employee communications using marketing techniques, such as personalization, scheduling, and automated triggering. It specializes in the fields of employee engagement, human, employment, and training. Pyn improves employee communications using marketing techniques such as personalization, scheduling,and automated triggering.Pyn’s employee-centric communication tool cuts through the clutter of messages in order to send only relevant and well-timed messages at key moments.It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. | $2.2M | Seed | Jul 27, 2020 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Skip Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skip-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Grok Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grok-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Atlassian

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

Atlassian produces software that helps teams work together more efficiently and effectively. The company provides project planning and management software, collaboration tools, and IT help desk solutions. The company operates in four segments: subscriptions (term licenses and cloud agreements), maintenance (annual maintenance contracts that providesupport and periodic updates and are generally attached to perpetual license sales), perpetual license (upfront sale for indefinite usage of the software), and other (training, strategic consulting, and revenue from the Atlassian Marketplace app store).

5 contacts available at Atlassian.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adrian Ludwig | CISO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-ludwig |
| Dominic Price | Work Futurist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominic-price |
| Fletcher Richman | Head of Product, Halp | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fletcher-richman |
| Michael Cannon-Brookes | Co-founder & Co-CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-cannon-brookes |
| Nick Gianos | Director of Product Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-gianos |

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## FAQ

### What does Scott Farquhar invest in?

Scott Farquhar invests primarily in Software, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Scott Farquhar's check size?

Scott Farquhar typically joins rounds of $1M–$10M at Seed, $1M–$200M at Series A and $12M–$100M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Scott Farquhar participates in.

### When did Scott Farquhar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scott Farquhar closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 25 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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