Startup Spotlight: Atlassian

Startup: Atlassian, based in Sydney, Australia and San Francisco.

Elevator pitch: Prosumer wiki and project management developer.

What they do: Enterprise software solutions for bug and issue tracking and project management (JIRA) and wikis (Confluence).

People: Co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes (CEO) and Scott Farquhar with 65 staff in Sydney, San Francisco and Malaysia.

Funding: Organic, revenues approx $15 million per annum, growing 25-30% quarter on quarter.

Customers: JIRA has 4,000 organisations as customers and Confluence has 1,800 in 65 countries.

Competitors: JotSpot, SocialText, 37Signals

The Deal: Intense customer focus from day one, passionate founders and a quality development team.

StudentFace: the Australian Facebook

Australian student social networking site, StudentFace, is a rapidly growing alternative to Facebook.

Their differentiator is a trusted network in that they verify and guarantee members are in fact students.

For more, read TechAdress’s interview with StudentFace CEO, Jahangir Shagaev.