GitLab

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Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

GitLab Inc. is a public, open-core software company whose GitLab platform unifies software planning, source-code management, CI/CD, security, compliance, deployment, observability, and AI-agent workflows. It began as an open-source project in 2011, was incorporated in 2014, and trades on Nasdaq as GTLB. As of FY2026 it reported $955.2M revenue, more than $1B ARR, more than 50M registered users, and approximately 2,580 team members.

Primary product

GitLab, an intelligent orchestration / DevSecOps platform available as GitLab.com SaaS, GitLab Self-Managed, and GitLab Dedicated, with GitLab Duo Agent Platform for AI-assisted and agentic software delivery.

Founded

2011

Headquarters

No operating headquarters: GitLab states that it is remote-only and does not maintain a headquarters. Its registered office for filings is 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, Delaware 19808.

Team size

Approximately 2,500–2,600 team members; 2,580 in 60 countries as of January 31, 2026.

Work style

Remote

Industry

IT services and software

Sub-industry

DevSecOps, software development platforms, developer tools, and AI-assisted software delivery

Business model

Open-core software

Subscription SaaS via GitLab.com

Self-managed subscription/license model

Single-tenant managed SaaS via GitLab Dedicated

Usage-based GitLab Duo Agent Platform credits

Enterprise annual commitments via GitLab Flex

Funding

Stage

Public company; venture-backed through Series E and IPO

Total raised

$435M

Latest round

Initial public offering · Oct 2021

Latest amount

$758.8M

IPO

Oct 2021 · Public markets

$758.8M

Series E

Sep 2019 · Goldman Sachs and ICONIQ Capital

$268M

Series E [GitLab Blog](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-series-e-funding)

Sep 2019 · Goldman Sachs, ICONIQ Capital

$268M

Series D (follow‑on) [Tracxn entry for GitLab funding rounds](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/gitlab/__68u0ZAtDXnYfDO42syPZfYK01mBWBormGg_pBCb0t_g/funding-and-investors)

Dec 2018 · Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (reported)

$20M

Series D extension

Dec 2018 · Goldman Sachs Investment Partners

$20M

Series D [GitLab Press Release](https://about.gitlab.com/press/releases/2018-09-19-gitlab-series-d-funding)

Sep 2018 · ICONIQ Capital

$100M

Series D

Sep 2018 · ICONIQ Capital

$100M

Series C

Oct 2017 · GV

$20M

Series C [GitLab Press Release](https://about.gitlab.com/press/releases/2017-10-09-gitlab-raises-c-round)

Oct 2017 · GV (Google Ventures)

$20M

Series B [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/13/gitlab-secures-20-million-series-b)

Sep 2016 · August Capital

$20M

Series B

Aug 2016 · August Capital

$20M

Series A

Sep 2015 · Khosla Ventures

$4M

Series A [Seedtable](https://seedtable.com/funding-round/Gitlab%2C_Inc._Series_A_round%2C_September_17%2C_2015-ZYZPXBE)

Sep 2015 · Khosla Ventures

$4M

Seed

Jul 2015 · Khosla Ventures

$1.5M

Seed (GitLab Seed press announcement) [GitLab Seed Press PDF](https://about.gitlab.com/images/press/press/GitLab_Seed_Funding_Press_Announcement.pdf)

Jul 2015 · Khosla Ventures

$1.5M

People & investors

Leadership

Bill Staples

Chief Executive Officer and Board Member

Sid Sijbrandij

Co-founder and Executive Chair of the Board

Jessica Ross

Chief Financial Officer

Thomas Lloyd

Chief Business and Legal Officer

Manav Khurana

Chief Product and Marketing Officer

Chaim Mazal

Chief Information Security Officer

Godfrey Sullivan

Lead Independent Director

Karen Blasing

Board Member

Matthew Jacobson

Board Member

Sue Bostrom

Board Member

Sunny Bedi

Board Member

David Henshall

Board Member

Founders

Dmytro (Dmitriy) Zaporozhets

Co-founder

Dmytro Zaporozhets

Co‑founder; formerly Engineering Fellow (left GitLab Nov 2021) [GitLab Farewell](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/a-special-farewell-from-gitlab-dmitriy-zaporozhets)

Sytse "Sid" Sijbrandij

Co‑founder; Executive Chair, GitLab Inc. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sijbrandij)

Investors

Work & culture

GitLab describes its culture through the values that everyone can contribute, results-driven remote work, transparency, iteration, collaboration, ownership, and impact. The public handbook is the central operating repository, and the company emphasizes asynchronous communication, inclusion, and work-life balance.

Work style

Remote

Visa sponsorship

Limited

Compensation

GitLab uses country-specific market data and generally targets the 50th percentile of the software market, with critical technical roles targeted at the 75th percentile. Compensation combines base salary, variable pay where applicable, and equity; ranges became visible to all team members in Workday on May 1, 2026. GitLab generally does not sponsor work visas, with narrow exceptions for certain existing-work-authorization or Netherlands processes.

Benefits

16 weeks paid parental leave, subject to applicable local terms

Flexible paid time off

Modern Health mental-health support

HealthKick wellness resources

Vivvi backup caregiving and tutoring

Up to $10,000 annual growth and development fund

Equity compensation/RSUs for most team members

Bereavement support

All-remote work environment

Product & market

Pricing

Free tier; Premium at $29 per user/month billed annually; Ultimate custom enterprise pricing; GitLab Dedicated and government offerings are sales-led; Duo Agent Platform usage is credit-based at $1 per credit, with add-on compute and storage pricing.

Differentiators

—Single application spanning planning, source control, CI/CD, security, compliance, and deployment
—Unified data model and permission/audit model rather than a collection of separately administered tools
—Open-core model with free and self-managed options
—Deployment choice across SaaS, self-managed, single-tenant Dedicated, and air-gapped environments
—Cloud-neutral and model-neutral AI strategy; GitLab says customer code is not used to train its models
—Integrated security and compliance workflows
—All-remote operating model and highly transparent public handbook

Technology

Ruby on Rails

Rust

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Storage

Amazon S3

Gitaly

GitLab Runner

Prometheus

gRPC

Protocol Buffers

GraphQL

Sidekiq

Docker

Customers

More than 50 million registered users

More than 50% of Fortune 100 companies

Airwallex

NVIDIA

Goldman Sachs

Deutsche Bank

US government and regulated-industry organizations

Competitors

GitHub

Microsoft Azure DevOps

Atlassian Jira plus Jenkins and Bitbucket

CircleCI

JFrog

Snyk

Harness

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $900M–$1.0B annually; reported FY2026 revenue was $955.2M.

Estimated monthly visits

16.5M

Traffic estimate as of Aug 2026

sales@gitlab.com 800-927-9800

Signals & risks

Layoff

Jun 2026

GitLab announced a reduction of approximately 14% of its full-time workforce, about 350 team members, to realign operations around AI and strategic priorities.

Source

Other

Jun 2026

The restructuring also plans exits from 22 countries, reducing the geographic footprint by approximately 37%, with estimated pre-tax restructuring charges of $30M–$35M.

Source

Other

Jun 2026

TechCrunch reported that management plans to reinvest much of the savings in infrastructure, research and development, and AI workloads; the cuts occurred despite 23% year-over-year quarterly revenue growth.

Source

Latest news

GitLab 19.2 Brings Governed Agentic Automation to Clear the Backlog AI Coding Creates

GitLab Investor Relations · Jul 2026

GitLab 19.2 added or expanded dependency auto-remediation, Security Review Flow, Duo CLI general availability, custom agentic flows, and AI audit reporting.

GitLab cuts 14% of staff as it scales its platform to serve AI workloads

TechCrunch · Jun 2026

Coverage of the approximately 350-person reduction, the AI-infrastructure rationale, and the planned $30M–$35M restructuring cost.

GitLab Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Results

GitLab Investor Relations · Jun 2026

Revenue reached $264.2M, up 23% year over year; customers above $5,000 ARR reached 10,831. The release also disclosed the planned 14% workforce reduction and exit from 22 countries.

GitLab 19.0 Extends Intelligent Orchestration to Close the Gap Between Writing Code and Shipping It

GitLab Investor Relations · May 2026

The release highlighted GitLab Secrets Manager, agentic merge-request workflows, components analytics, SBOM/dependency controls, and self-hosted open-source model support.

GitLab Foundation Awards $500,000 Grant to Making Space to Expand Workforce Pathways and Responsible AI Tools for Disabled Talent

PR Newswire · Mar 2026

The GitLab Foundation awarded a $500,000 grant to Making Space to scale fellowship programming and build responsible AI tools that improve employment access for disabled talent, aiming to close the disability employment gap through training, employer systems change, and AI‑enabled matching (Mar 18, 2026) [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gitlab-foundation-awards-500-000-grant-to-making-space-to-expand-workforce-pathways-and-responsible-ai-tools-for-disabled-talent-302714470.html).

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