Atlassian co-founder and father of 4 Mike Cannon-Brookes has separated from his US-born spouse, Annie, after 13 years of marriage.
Information of the demerger emerged over the weekend in 9 newspapers, citing “sources near the household”. An Atlassian spokesperson declined to remark.
An unauthorised supply advised the media: “They’re each focussed on their youngsters as their primary precedence proper now. They ask that their privateness is revered.”
The pair, who’ve an intensive property portfolio value greater than $200 million, in addition to the household enterprise capital fund Grok Ventures, reportedly parted methods a month in the past.
They married in January 2010 after assembly in an airport lounge when she reportedly stated hiya after mistaking him for another person.
She has had a protracted and profitable profession as a designer as Annie Todd, with it continuing under the House of Cannon label throughout their marriage.
Atlassian was simply eight-years-old once they met and 6 months after their nuptials, in July 2010, took on its first VC funding, with Accel Companions investing US$60 million. 5 years later in December 2015, Atlassian listed on the Nasdaq with a US$4.37 billion market capitalisation. It’s now value round US$45 billion.
The Cannon-Brookes household has a private wealth of round A$20 billion, placing them amongst Australia’s prime 10 richest folks.
The tip of their relationship comes only a fortnight after fellow billionaires Andrew and Nicola Forrest introduced the tip of their 31-year marriage.
Alongside his stake within the office software program firm he based along with his co-CEO, Scott Farquhar, Cannon-Brookes can be the most important shareholder in AGL Vitality, the ASX-listed energy firm he made an unsuccessful takeover bid for final 12 months.
Cannon-Brookes additionally owns renewable vitality startup Solar Cable. He invested lots of of thousands and thousands within the enterprise alongside Andrew Forrest, backing a plan to pipe photo voltaic vitality 4,200km underwater from Darwin to Singapore. However the billionaires fell out over strategic course of the $30 billion project, which was placed in voluntary administration in mid January.
Cannon-Brookes, lent the enterprise $65 million to keep the show on the road as the administrators looked for a buyer, then went on to win the bid to acquire Sun Cable from the liquidators by way of entity affiliated with Grok Ventures, their $2 billion household VC fund.
The pair additionally pledged in 2021 to invest $1 billion in climate tech startups. The Grok portfolio contains house renewables fintech Brighte, social influence startup Who Gives a Crap, Canberra-based battery investment fund Infradebt , customer insights platform Dovetail and nanosatellite startup Fleet Space, in addition to funds fintech, Tyro, which listed on the ASX in 2019.
Mike Cannon-Brookes has a 25% stake in NRL team the South Sydney Rabbitohs alongside James Packer and Russell Crowe, in addition to US NBA franchise Utah Jazz.
Then there’s an astonishing property portfolio, together with the previous Fairfax household mansion, Fairwater, in Sydney’s Level Piper, which they paid a document $100 million for in 2018. Scott Farquhar owns the $71. million home subsequent door.
Annie Cannon-Brookes paid $20-25 million for the Great Barrier Reef tourism destination Dunk Island last year. In addition they have a $12 million home behind Fairwater, the previous German consul-general’s house in Woollahra, acquired in 2020 for $18m, a 155 hectare farm within the NSW Southern Highlands that price $15m, and two extra close by, together with paying $5.35m for 45ha Rosehill Farm close by and $3.3m for Joadja Creek.
North of Sydney there’s the previous Jennifer Hawkins home in Newport, purchased in 2020 for $24.5 million, a Palm Seaside home purchased for $8.7m in 2013, and on the opposite facet of Pittwater, a shack at Nice Mackerel Seaside, snapped up for a discount $2.3m in 2020.