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GitLab Inc.
GitLab

Type of site

Available inEnglish
Traded as
  • Russell 1000 component
  • HeadquartersSan Francisco
    Area servedWorldwide
    OwnerGitLab Inc.
    Founder(s)
    • Dmytriy Zaporozhets
  • Sytse "Sid" Sijbrandij
  • Key people
  • Brian G. Robins (CFO)
  • Chris Weber (CRO)
  • Robin Schulman (CLO & Corporate Secretary)
  • Ashley Kramer (CMO)
  • Jack Andrews (VP, Investor Relations)
  • David DeSanto (CPO)
  • IndustrySoftware
    RevenueIncrease US$424.3 million (2022)[2]
    Operating incomeDecrease US$−211.4 million (2022)[2]
    Net incomeDecrease US$−172.3 million (2022)[2]
    Total assetsIncrease US$1.169 billion (2022)[2]
    Total equityDecrease US$771.0 million (2022)[2]
    Employees1,630 (January 2022)[3]
    URLabout.gitlab.com Edit this at Wikidata
    CommercialYes
    RegistrationOptional
    Launched2014; 10 years ago (2014)[4]
    Current statusOnline
    Written inRuby, Go and Vue.js
    [2][5]
    GitLab Application
    Initial release2011; 13 years ago (2011)
    Stable release

    17.0[6] Edit this on Wikidata / 16 May 2024; 2 months ago (16 May 2024)

    Repository
    Written inRuby, Go and JavaScript
    Operating systemCross-platform
    Platformx86-64, ARMhf
    LicenseCommunity Edition: MIT License and other software licenses[7]
    Enterprise Edition: Source-available proprietary software[7][8]
    Websiteabout.gitlab.com Edit this on Wikidata

    GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that operates GitLab, a DevOps software package that can develop, secure, and operate software.[9] GitLab includes a distributed version control based on Git,[10] including features such as access control,[11] bug tracking,[12] software feature requests, task management,[13] and wikis[14] for every project, as well as snippets.[15]

    The open-source software project was created by Ukrainian developer Dmytriy Zaporozhets and Dutch developer Sytse Sijbrandij.[16] In 2018, GitLab Inc. was considered to be the first partly-Ukrainian unicorn.[17][18]GitLab has an estimated over 30 million registered users, including 1 million active licensed users.[9][19] There are more than 3,300 code contributors and team members in 60+ countries.[20]

    Overview

    [edit]

    GitLab Inc. was established in 2014 to continue the development of the open-source code-sharing platform launched in 2011 by Dmytriy Zaporozhets. The company's co-founder Sytse Sijbrandij initially contributed to the project and decided to build a business around it.[21][22]

    GitLab offers its platform using a freemium model.[21]Since its founding, GitLab Inc. has promoted remote work[23] and is known as one of the largest all-remote companies in the world.[24] By 2020, the company employed 1300 people in 65 countries.[23][25]

    History

    [edit]

    The company participated in the YCombinator seed accelerator Winter 2015 program. By 2015, notable customers included Alibaba Group and IBM.[22]

    In January 2017, a database administrator accidentally deleted the production database in the aftermath of a cyberattack, causing the loss of a substantial amount of issue data and merge request data.[26] The recovery process was live-streamedonYouTube.[27][28]

    In April 2018, GitLab Inc. announced integration with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to simplify the process of spinning up a new cluster to deploy applications.[29]

    In May 2018, GNOME moved to GitLab with over 400 projects and 900 contributors.[30][31]

    On August 1, 2018, GitLab Inc. started development of Meltano.[32]

    On August 11, 2018, GitLab Inc. moved from Microsoft AzuretoGoogle Cloud Platform, making the service inaccessible to users in several regions including: Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, due to sanctions imposed by Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States.[33] In order to overcome this limitation, the non-profit organization Framasoft began providing a Debian mirror to make GitLab CE available in those countries.[34]

    In 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, GitLab Inc. released "GitLab's Guide to All-Remote" as well as a course on remote management for the purpose of aiding companies interested in building all-remote work cultures.[35][36]

    April 2020 saw the expansion of GitLab Inc. into the Australian and Japanese markets.[37][38] In November that same year, GitLab Inc. was valued at more than $6 billion in a secondary market evaluation.[39]

    In 2021, OMERS participated in a secondary shares investment in GitLab Inc.[40]

    On March 18, 2021, GitLab Inc. licensed its technology to the Chinese company JiHu.[41]

    On June 30, 2021, GitLab Inc. spun out Meltano, an open source ELT platform.[42]

    On July 23, 2021, GitLab Inc. released its software Package Hunter, a Falco-based tool that detects malicious code,[43] under the open-source MIT Licence.

    On August 4, 2022, GitLab announced its plans for changing its Data Retention Policy and for automatically deleting inactive repositories which have not been modified for a year. As a result, in the following days GitLab received much criticism from the open-source community.[44] Shortly after, it was announced that dormant projects would not be deleted, and would instead remain accessible in an archived state, potentially using a slower type of storage.[45][46]

    In May 2023, the company launched the "GitLab 16.0" platform as an AI-driven DevSecOps solution. It contained over 55 new features and enhancements.[47]

    In July 2024, Reuters reported that GitLab was exploring a potential sale after attracting acquisition interest, with cloud monitoring firm Datadog named as one of the interested parties.[48]

    Fundraising

    [edit]

    GitLab Inc. initially raised $1.5 million in seed funding.[22] Subsequent funding rounds include:

    IPO

    [edit]

    On September 17, 2021, GitLab Inc. publicly filed a registration statement Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to the proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock.[54] The firm began trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker "GTLB" on October 14, 2021.[55]

    Adoption

    [edit]

    GitLab Forge was officially adopted in 2023 by the French Ministry for Education to create a "Digital Educational Commons" of educational resources.[56]

    Acquisitions

    [edit]

    In March 2015, GitLab Inc. acquired competing Git hosting Service Gitorious, which had around 822,000 registered users at the time.[57] These users were encouraged to move to GitLab and the Gitorious service was discontinued in June 2015.[57]

    On March 15, 2017, GitLab Inc. announced the acquisition of Gitter.[58] Included in the announcement was the stated intent that Gitter would continue as a standalone project. Additionally, GitLab Inc. announced that the code would become open-source under an MIT License no later than June 2017.[59]

    In January 2018, GitLab Inc. acquired Gemnasium, a service that provided security scanners with alerts for known security vulnerabilities in open-source libraries of various languages.[60] The service was scheduled for complete shut-down on May 15. Gemnasium features and technology was integrated into GitLab EE and as part of CI/CD.[61]

    On June 11, 2020, GitLab Inc. acquired Peach Tech, a security software firm specializing in protocol fuzz testing, and Fuzzit,[62] a continuous “fuzz” security testing solution.

    On June 2, 2021, GitLab Inc. acquired UnReview, a tool that automates software review cycles.[63]

    On December 14, 2021, GitLab Inc. announced that it had acquired Opstrace, Inc., developers of an open source software monitoring and observability platform.[64]

    See also

    [edit]

    References

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