Adobe

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Adobe Inc. is a publicly traded software company (NASDAQ: ADBE) founded in 1997 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with ~31,360 employees. It dominates creative software (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere), document workflows (Acrobat, Sign), and enterprise marketing technology (Adobe Experience Cloud). The company is aggressively embedding AI across its product suite under the Firefly brand and announced a $25 billion stock repurchase program in April 2026.

Key facts

Founded

1997

Employees

31360

Sectors

saas, enterprise, ai

Website

adobe.com

Mission

Adobe's mission is to change the world through digital experiences — giving everyone from individual creators to global enterprises the tools to create, manage, and deliver digital content across creative, document, and marketing workflows.

Recent activity

• Jun 2026press
  Adobe reported record Q2 FY2026 revenue of $6.62 billion, up 13% year-over-year. AI-first ARR tripled to over $500 million year-over-year, and creative freemium MAUs crossed 90 million, growing over 70% year-over-year. instalker.org
• Jun 2026product
  Adobe expanded its Firefly-powered Creative Agent into Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io as public betas on June 18, 2026. The agent handles multi-step task execution across apps from a plain-language prompt — sorting assets, assembling rough cuts, adjusting lighting — while the creator approves or rejects results. news.adobe.com
• Jun 2026product
  Adobe launched GenStudio for Commerce Media Networks with AI innovations, announced June 17, 2026. tracxn.com
• Jun 2026product
  Adobe's Firefly integrated with ChatGPT and Claude, giving users access to 70+ tools — including Photoshop, Firefly, Lightroom, and Acrobat — directly within those chat interfaces. x.com
• May 2026investment
  Adobe co-invested in Netomi's $110 million Series C alongside lead investor Accenture Ventures. Netomi is an enterprise agentic customer experience platform serving Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and DraftKings. business20channel.tv
• Mar 2026product
  Adobe and Nvidia announced a partnership to optimize creative workflows across Photoshop, Premiere, and Substance 3D using Nvidia RTX Spark, targeting faster editing, effects, and 3D rendering. instalker.org
• Jan 2026press
  Adobe committed nearly $10 million to its Film & TV Fund in 2026 — bringing the three-year total to $20 million — to support emerging and mid-career filmmakers from underserved communities through grants, fellowships, and product donations. Partners include the Group Effort Initiative, NAACP, Gold House, Sundance Ignite, Rideback RISE, and Amelia Dimoldenberg's Dimz Inc. news.adobe.com
• Jun 2026press
  Adobe reported record Q2 FY2026 revenue of $6.62 billion, up 13% year over year (11% in constant currency). AI-first ARR tripled to over $500 million year over year, and creative freemium MAU crossed 90 million, growing over 70% year over year. x.com
• Jun 2026investment
  Adobe completed its acquisition of Semrush, expanding its digital experience portfolio into SEO and AI-driven search visibility as AI traffic to U.S. retail sites rises 269% year over year. x.com
• Jun 2026press
  Adobe pledged $10 million to its 2026 Film & TV Fund, adding new partnerships with Rideback RISE and Amelia Dimoldenberg's Dimz Inc., alongside existing partners including the NAACP, Gold House, Sundance Ignite, and USC Annenberg. hollywoodreporter.com
• Apr 2026leadership
  CEO Shantanu Narayen announced plans to step down after 18 years leading the company. The announcement came ahead of Adobe Summit 2026. computerworld.com
• Apr 2026product
  At Adobe Summit 2026 in Las Vegas, Adobe launched the Adobe CX Enterprise suite, shifting to an agentic AI model for customer experience orchestration, and announced new products including Adobe Creative Agent and Adobe Brand Intelligence. techradar.com

Key people

Named individuals at the firm. We don't expose direct email or phone — use their LinkedIn for outreach.

• Shantanu Narayen · CEO
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• Daniel J. Durn · CFO
• Frank Calderoni · Board Member
• Cristiano Amon · Board Member
• Lucius DiPhillips · Employee (joined Jan 2026)
• Dan Durn · EVP & CFO
• David Wadhwani · President, Digital Media
• Anil Chakravarthy · President, Digital Experience
• Scott Belsky · former CSO

Sources

• Adobe $25B buyback announcement – Markets Today on X
• Adobe x Xfinity partnership at Summit 2026 – TechDogs on X
• Adobe Animate discontinued – Maximiliano Firtman on X
• Adobe third campus in Noida – The UP Index on X
• Adobe Summit 2026 agentic stack recap – Sandor Jones LinkedIn
• Adobe India AI Impact Summit announcement – Nanda Kambhatla LinkedIn
• Adobe x NVIDIA AI toolkit at Summit 2026 – Prashant Siddharth LinkedIn
• Adobe Investor Relations
• https://x.com/erikinternet/status/2032528936601887037
• https://x.com/robertoblake/status/2014761980108644451
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasperandersendk/
• https://x.com/Adobe
• https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/adobe-film-tv-fund-amelia-dimoldenberg-partnership-1236478040/
• https://www.computerworld.com/article/4146823/adobe-summit-2026-how-adobe-hopes-to-redesign-marketing-and-creativity-with-ai.html
• https://www.techradar.com/pro/live/adobe-summit-2026
• https://instalker.org/adobe
• https://news.adobe.com/news/2026/06/adobe-unveils-major-expansion
• https://tracxn.com/d/companies/adobe/__9Huk6yfRGtipbm0NvhqJcW6DSvL2pyawoDn8ejZAn_4
• https://business20channel.tv/netomi-110m-series-c-2026-accenture-and-adobe-fund-agentic-c-2-may-2026
• https://news.adobe.com/news/2026/01/sundance-filmmakers-choose-adobe

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