GitLab is a web-based open source Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features and built-in CI/CD. It is an open-source code collaboration platform that enables developers to create, review, and deploy codebases. The company’s open-source, code-collaboration platform offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, wikis, and more, along with continuous integration and deployment tools, enabling users to create, review and deploy codes. GitLab’s software is used by more than 100,000 organizations, 40 million users, and has an active community of more than 3000 contributors. GitLab openly shares more information than most companies and is public by default, meaning their projects, strategy, direction and metrics are discussed openly and can be found within their website. Their values are Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging , Iteration, and Transparency (CREDIT) and these form their culture. GitLab’s team handbook, if printed would be over 5,000 pages of text, is the central repository for how they operate and is a foundational piece to the GitLab values. GitLab believes in a world where everyone can contribute. Their mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of human progress. With GitLab, everyone can contribute.
Company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. With over 1,200 team members in more than 65 countries, GitLab is now the world’s largest all-remote company. Every single team member is remote, with no central headquarters and no company-owned offices anywhere in the world. GitLab has experienced 50x growth in 4 years, reaching the $100M ARR (annual recurring revenue) mark in 2020. This milestone brings them one step closer toward our aspiration of reaching $1B in 4 years. GitLab is currently valued at $2.75 billion and has raised $426M to date.
