Adobe

Quick read

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

• Mar 2026leadership
  CEO Shantanu Narayen announced his resignation amid skepticism about Adobe's ability to compete in the AI era, alongside a weak revenue forecast. x.com
• Mar 2026leadership
  Erik Carter announced he's joining Adobe as the new CEO, succeeding Shantanu Narayen. x.com
• 2026fundraise
  Adobe committed up to $10M in funding and resources for 2026 across two initiatives: the Adobe Film & TV Fund and the Adobe Fund for Design. x.com
• 2026product
  Adobe Summit 2026 wrapped up with notable announcements including an Agent Orchestrator, new MCP servers for Adobe Analytics, Customer Journey Analytics, and Journey Optimizer — none of which drew major headline coverage despite their strategic weight. linkedin.com
• 2026product
  Adobe shifted its analytics positioning from retrospective reporting to real-time decision-making infrastructure, with Mix Modeler moving into broader EMEA deployment. linkedin.com
• Apr 2026press
  Adobe announced a $25 billion stock repurchase program following Adobe Summit 2026, held April 20–22 in Las Vegas, sending shares higher in after-hours trading. x.com
• Apr 2026product
  At Adobe Summit 2026, Adobe launched a five-layer agentic capability stack spanning Real-Time CDP, Customer Journey Analytics, and Journey Optimizer, including the Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker AI agent. linkedin.com
• Apr 2026product
  Adobe and Xfinity announced a partnership at Adobe Summit 2026 to co-develop AI-powered tools for faster campaign creation and personalized content delivery at scale. x.com
• Apr 2026product
  Adobe announced a new AI toolkit built in partnership with NVIDIA at Adobe Summit 2026. linkedin.com
• Apr 2026product
  At India's AI Impact Summit 2026, Adobe announced free access to Photoshop, Acrobat, and Firefly for students at accredited higher education institutions across India, aligned with the government's 'Create in India' initiative. linkedin.com
• Mar 2026product
  Adobe discontinued Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash Professional) effective March 1, 2026, ending nearly three decades of the product's history. x.com
• 2026press
  Adobe announced a third campus in Noida, India, to complement its two existing Sector-25 and Sector-132 campuses, which together house 5,000+ employees. x.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/

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