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GitLab Inc.
GitLab
Type of site
Available inEnglish
Traded as
HeadquartersSan Francisco
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerGitLab Inc.
Founder(s)
  • Dmytro (or Dmitriy) Zaporozhets
  • Sytse "Sid" Sijbrandij
Key people
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; 11 years ago (2014)[4]
Current statusOnline
Written inRuby, Go and Vue.js
[2][5]
GitLab Application
Initial release2011; 14 years ago (2011)
Stable release
17.8[6] Edit this on Wikidata / 16 January 2025; 2 months ago (16 January 2025)
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 is a software package to develop and operate software.[9] GitLab includes a version control system based on Git.[10] Gitlab has features including access control,[11] bug tracking,[12] feature requests, task management,[13] and wikis[14] for projects.[15]

GitLab has over 30 million registered users, including 1 million active users.[9][16] There are more than 3,300 code contributors and team members in 60+ countries.[17]

Overview

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GitLab Inc. was founded in 2014 to continue the development of an older code-sharing platform.[18][19]

GitLab offers its platform using a freemium model.[18] Since its founding, GitLab has became one of the largest only remote work companies.[20] The company employs more than 1300 people over 65 countries.[21][22]

Adoption

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GitLab Forge was adopted in 2023 by the French Ministry for Education as an educational resource.[23]

Acquisitions

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In March 2015, GitLab Inc. acquired Gitorious, a competitor which had over 800,000 users.[24] These users were moved to GitLab was shutdown in June 2015.[24]

In March 2017, GitLab Inc. announced the acquisition of Gitter.[25] Instead of merging, GitLab Inc. announced it would continue as its own service. Additionally, the code would become open-source no later than June.[26]

In January 2018, GitLab Inc. acquired Gemnasium, a service that helped scan for issues with libraries.[27] The features were merged into GitLab in May.[28]

In June 2020, GitLab Inc. acquired Peach Tech, specializing in "fuzz testing",[29] a security testing solution.

In June 2021, GitLab Inc. acquired UnReview, A software automation tool.[30]

In December 2021, GitLab Inc. acquired Opstrace, Inc. Creators of a software monitoring platform.[31]

References

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  1. ↑ "GitLab 14 Delivers Modern DevOps in One Platform". DevPro Journal. July 12, 2021. Archived from the original on January 30, 2022. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "GitLab Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Financial Results". ir.gitlab.com. 15 March 2023. Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  3. ↑ "GitLab Inc. 2021 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". SEC.gov. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 8 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 June 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  4. ↑ "GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.75B valuation". 17 September 2019.
  5. ↑ Sijbrandij, Sid (October 14, 2021). "GitLab goes public on Nasdaq a $10 billion IPO". CNBC. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  6. ↑ "GitLab 17.8 Release". 16 January 2025. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "GitLab LICENSE file". Archived from the original on 29 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  8. ↑ "GitLab Enterprise Edition LICENSE file". Archived from the original on 22 March 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "GitLab goes public on Nasdaq a $10 billion IPO". CNBC. October 14, 2021. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022. Retrieved November 10, 2021. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Nasdaq" defined multiple times with different content
  10. ↑ "Learn Git - GitLab". Retrieved 2024-07-07.
  11. ↑ "Control access and visibility - GitLab". Retrieved 2024-07-07.
  12. ↑ "Issues - GitLab". Retrieved 2024-07-07.
  13. ↑ "Tasks - GitLab". Retrieved 2024-07-07.
  14. ↑ "Wikis - GitLab". Retrieved 2024-07-07.
  15. ↑ "Snippets - GitLab". Retrieved 2024-07-07.
  16. ↑ Goled, Shraddha (September 22, 2021). "GitLab To Go Public: Tracing The Company's Highs & Lows". Analytics India Magazine. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  17. ↑ "About GitLab". about.gitlab.com. Retrieved 2024-05-05.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Albert-Deitch, Cameron (13 November 2018). "How This Startup Made $10.5 Million in Revenue With Every Single Employee Working From Home". Inc.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "inc" defined multiple times with different content
  19. ↑ Novet, Jordan (9 July 2015). "Y Combinator-backed GitHub competitor GitLab raises $1.5M". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 2021-03-22. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
  20. ↑ Cameron Albert-Deitch (September 23, 2019). "This $2.75 Billion Company Employs Only Remote Workers. Here's How It Works". Inc. Archived from the original on December 8, 2022. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  21. ↑ Novet, Jordan (July 18, 2020). "This Company Was Fully Remote with 1,300 Employees Long before Coronavirus — Here's How They Did It". CNBC. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  22. ↑ Liu, Jennifer (December 9, 2020). "How a Company with 1,300 Remote Workers in 65 countries Is Approaching Holiday Events". CNBC. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  23. ↑ "A GitLab forge for all teachers and students in France?". fosdem.org. Archived from the original on 2023-02-10. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Degeler, Andrii (2015-03-03). "Code Collaboration Platform GitLab Acquires Rival Gitorious". The Next Web. Archived from the original on 2021-03-22. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  25. ↑ "GitLab acquires software chat startup Gitter, will open-source the code". VentureBeat. 2017-03-15. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  26. ↑ "Gitter is joining the GitLab team". GitLab. Archived from the original on 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  27. ↑ "GitLab acquires Gemnasium to strengthen its security services". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 2018-08-01. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  28. ↑ Condon, Stephanie. "GitLab makes CI/CD tools available for GitHub repositories". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2018-04-05. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  29. ↑ Taft, Darryl (June 12, 2021). "GitLab makes two acquisitions to shift fuzz testing left". TechTarget. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  30. ↑ Lardinois, Frederic (June 2, 2021). "GitLab acquires UnReview as it looks to bring more ML tools to its platform". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  31. ↑ "GitLab will create the first integrated observability solution within a DevOps Platform". GitLab Investor Relations. December 14, 2021. Archived from the original on December 17, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
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