GitLab
Also known as GitLab Inc.
All-remote company behind GitLab, the open-core platform for hosting code and running CI/CD.
At a glance
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- GitLab began in 2011 as an open-source project by Dmytro Zaporozhets and Sytse Sijbrandij to help a team of programmers collaborate.
- GitLab Inc. was incorporated in 2014, went through Y Combinator in 2015 and listed on Nasdaq in 2021.
- It sells a Git-based platform for planning, code hosting, CI/CD and security, in a free Community edition and a proprietary Enterprise edition.
- It has worked all-remote from the start and publishes its company handbook openly.
Why it matters
- One of the two big places to host code, and a well-known example of an all-remote company run in the open.
Key facts
- Started
- 2011, as an open-source project; first GitLab CI in 20122
- Incorporated
- 2014; Y Combinator in 20152
- Founders
- Dmytro Zaporozhets and Sytse Sijbrandij1
- Headquarters
- San Francisco (all-remote)1
- Public
- Nasdaq since 2021, ticker GTLB2
- Editions
- Community Edition under the MIT License; Enterprise Edition proprietary3
- Size
- More than 2,500 team members and over 50 million estimated registered users (June 2026)2
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