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AI · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2008

Maker of Copilot. | Helps users build high quality software

Valuation $5–10B
Revenue $1–5B
Headcount 5–10k
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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Investors

6 investors on GitHub's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Andreessen Horowitz
SV Angel
Series B+ 4 investors entered at this stage
Sequoia
Thrive Capital
IVP
Caffeinated Capital

GitHub mafia

Startups founded by GitHub alumni

Former GitHub employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

XBOWEst. 2024
Oege De MoorUnited States
Signal score96
Poolside AIEst. 2023
Jason WarnerUnited States
Signal score95
Oxide ComputerEst. 2019
Jessie FrazelleUnited States
Signal score94
AnySignalEst. 2022
Ricardo MedinaUnited States
Signal score94
Developer ExperienceEst. 2021
Abi NodaUnited States
Signal score93
EntireEst. 2026
Thomas DohmkeUnited States
Signal score89
AfterShipEst. 2012
Teddy ChanHong Kong
Signal score88
GitbutlerEst. 2023
Scott ChaconGermany
Signal score86
CuriousJrEst. 2020
Amit ShekharIndia
Signal score85
WorkbrewEst. 2023
John Britton.Philippines
Signal score85
Force EqualsEst. 2024
LakshitUnited States
Signal score77
Anvil FoundryEst. 2018
Ben OgleUnited States
Signal score75

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Global footprint

Where GitHub has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
82 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States54.4%
🇮🇳 India7.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.8%
🇳🇱 Netherlands3.7%
🇩🇪 Germany2.9%
Top 5 of 82 shown
Web traffic by country
620M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States17.9%
🇮🇳 India11.1%
🇨🇳 China10%
🏳️ Russian Federation8.7%
🇩🇪 Germany4%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of GitHub's talent

Dealroom maps GitHub's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

33 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
74 AI specialistsincl. 27 core researchers
6,578 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Patent intelligence

$43M patent portfolio · 63 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$43M
0.57% of valuation · comparable to top peer ASAPP ($45M)
63 active patent families
Where GitHub innovates Computer engineeringComputer programSoftware engineeringSource codeSource code file

Where GitHub concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across GitHub and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

Compare against

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

GitHub's 27 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where GitHub appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

27 deals across GitHub's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        02 · Portfolio market map

        GitHub's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        27 of 27 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about GitHub

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about GitHub on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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