Summary of financial support, owners and backup organization of Bitbucket.

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https://bitbucket.org/

Origin

bitbucket.org
. Image http://blog.bitbucket.org/files/2012/11/bitbucket_innovation_week.png
Slogan: Unlimited DVCS Code Hosting, Free
. Distributed Version Control System
. "one of the most important technologies being developed for software engineers"
. Free as in gratuity
Servicio de alojamiento basado en web, para proyectos que utilizan sistema de control de revisiones Mercurial y Git
Built almost entirely on Django web-framework (escrito en lenguaje de programación Python bajo BSD License)
Commercial License [http://www.atlassian.com/end-user-agreement]
Bitbucket was previously an independent startup
. Startup company:
. Temporary organization designed to to grow fast
. Designed to search for markets, and for a repeatable and scalable business models
Acquired by VentureCapital-funded Atlassian, Inc. (Sep 2010)
. Capital de Riesgo son entidades financieras cuyo objeto principal consiste en participaciones temporales en el capital de empresas no cotizadas, con el objetivo de que la empresa aumente su valor y una vez madurada la inversión, el capitalista se retire obteniendo un beneficio

Owners

Atlassian, Inc.
Australian enterprise software company founded in 2002
Provides software development and collaboration tools to help teams conceive, plan, build and launch SW products
Key people: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
. Image http://delimiter.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/atlassian1.jpg
They met while studying at the University of New South Wales (Australia)
. Key Hires:
. Alex Estevez (Chief Financial Officer)
. Jay Simons (Chief Marketing Officer)
. http://blogs.atlassian.com/2011/08/press_release_atlassian_caps_massive_revenue_growth_with_key_executive_hires

As a startup company
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Startup_financing_cycle.svg
BitBucket was self-funded from 2002, starting with a $10,000 credit card taken out by the founders
BitBucket with 225 employees by 2010, counts more than 20,000 customers in 140 countries, including Microsoft and Facebook
In July 2010 it raised its first outside funding for $60 million in venture capital from Accel Partners
. Accel Partners (Palo Alto, California, U.S.) including Facebook, Dropbox, Spotify, Rovio (Angry Birds), TRUSTe, Kayak, Macromedia, Walmart
'By joining forces, we're able to accelerate improvements to the infrastructure, support, and bring on additional developers'
BitBucket made $59 million in revenue in 2011
BitBucket is on a $100 million run-rate for the current fiscal year and has 26,000 customers globally
On June 2011, Atlassian announced its first big investment in another company: Cloud9, a SaaS-based IDE platform
Atlassian with more than 23,000 customers, including Coca-Cola, NASA and the majority of the Fortune 500 list
Currently employs 500 people and is headquartered in Sydney, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Tokyo