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Comalatech
👤 Roberto Dominguez (Spotted a Confluence content-approval gap in 2005 and owned it 17 years — an early mover who grew as Atlassian did.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
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Will it work? · our read
Acquirer-ready. Seventeen bootstrapped years inside Atlassian's marketplace made it what a consolidator wants: recurring enterprise installs, clear financials, and no investors to satisfy.
01How the money moves
List 3 apps on Atlassian's Marketplace
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Enterprises buy annual per-user licenses
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Recurring profit draws a mid-8-fig buyer
02The numbers
$10M/yrStatedannual rev., 2021 (TGA)
2021source:
$10 million annual revenue (2021)
By 2021-22, per They Got Acquired's reporting. They Got Acquired
Bootstrapped since 2005; sold to Appfire for mid-8 figures in 2022.
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They Got Acquired — Comalatech acquired by Appfire: $10M revenue, mid-8-figure sale, 10,000+ installs, 45 staff.Appfire — Comalatech joins the Appfire family (Apr 2022): first-party acquisition announcement, founded 2005, BC + Bilbao offices.Appfire — About: 25k+ companies, 300k+ Atlassian installs, 700+ partners.Comalatech: product site, now redirects to Appfire.Roberto Dominguez — founder, LinkedIn
Revenue ($10M/yr by 2021) and the mid-8-figure 2022 sale come from They Got Acquired, which interviewed founder Roberto Dominguez; the article states the $10M itself rather than quoting him, and no audited filing exists (bootstrapped, private) — so graded STATED, verified:false. Installs (10,000+) and headcount (45) are from the same article. Appfire's own announcement confirms the acquisition, the 2005 founding, and BC+Bilbao offices; Appfire's scale (25k+ companies, 300k+ installs) is Appfire's own stated figure. 'Mid-8 figures' means tens of millions — no exact price was disclosed. Appfire's role as an Atlassian-app consolidator is supported by its 'brings Comala into our portfolio' language; the platform-dependence risk in 'dies' is our read. We never score you.