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GitLab
Cybersecurity · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2014 · IPO 2021 Unicorn
GitLab mafia
Startups founded by GitLab alumni
Former GitLab employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Job van der VoortUnited States
Douwe MaanUnited States
Sid SijbrandijUnited States
Fatih AcetUnited States
Dean AgronIsrael
Danielle MorrillUnited States
Marc-Henri SpiessFrance
Jason YavorskaUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where GitLab has talent and traffic
(20 of 3,354 staff)
team presence
Patent intelligence
$2M patent portfolio · 9 active families
Where GitLab concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across GitLab and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
GitLab's 9 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where GitLab appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2015–2024. 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.
9 deals across GitLab's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where GitLab deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
GitLab'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”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about GitLab
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about GitLab 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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