HipChat was the startup and team communication tool that Atlassian acquired in 2012.
HipChat was developed as a web-based group chat service for teams. It offered persistent rooms, private messaging, file sharing, and integrations, features that made it useful for software and business groups.
Atlassian acquired HipChat in 2012 and later integrated it with its collaboration product ecosystem. The service eventually faced competition from tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, which helped make workplace chat a mainstream software category.
HipChat is sometimes confused with Campfire, another team-chat product created by 37signals. Atlassian later announced the end of HipChat’s hosted services and directed users toward other collaboration products.