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GitLab

Cybersecurity · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2014 · IPO 2021

Application for development operations, from project planning to source code management

Valuation $4.57B
Revenue $955M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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News Anaconda buys Kilo Code to bring its 3M developers into the enterprise fold Jul 15, 2026 News Solo GP Ashley Smith closes $25M Fund II for AI, security and dev tools startups Jul 8, 2026 News After doctors stopped, GitLab co-founder kept going — now cancer-free Mar 10, 2026

Investors

23 investors on GitLab's cap table

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

Seed 2 investors entered at this stage
Y Combinator
FundersClub
Series A 7 investors entered at this stage
500 Global
Ilya Sukhar
Audrey Capital
Liquid 2 Ventures
Sound Ventures
Tuesday Capital
Khosla Ventures
Series B+ 14 investors entered at this stage
Inkef
Two Sigma Ventures
August Capital
Goldman Sachs
ICONIQ Growth
ICONIQ Capital
Franklin Templeton Investments
GS Growth Equity
GV
General Catalyst
Tiger Global
Light Street Capital Management
Adage Capital
Coatue Management

GitLab mafia

Startups founded by GitLab alumni

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

RemoteEst. 2019
Job van der VoortUnited States
Signal score97
Kilo CodeEst. 2025
Sid SijbrandijUnited States
Signal score95
FirstpartyEst. 2021
Danielle MorrillUnited States
Signal score58
KodeziEst. 2019
MWMike WUnited States
Signal score58
SuperpeerEst. 2020
Fatih AcetUnited States
Signal score57
OxeyeEst. 2020
Dean AgronIsrael
Signal score57
TwicPicsEst. 2018
Marc-Henri SpiessFrance
Signal score53
SynuraEst. 2022
Jason YavorskaUnited States
Signal score45
InflowEst. 2020
AYAlexander YosephUnited States
Signal score44

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Global footprint

Where GitLab has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
62 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States42.6%
🇨🇦 Canada7.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom6.7%
🇩🇪 Germany6.3%
🇳🇱 Netherlands5%
Top 5 of 62 shown

Talent graph

The shape of GitLab's talent

Dealroom maps GitLab'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.

8 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
20 AI specialistsincl. 4 core researchers
3,421 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$2M patent portfolio · 18 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$2M
0.04% of market cap · 3.6× smaller than top peer MuleSoft ($7M)
18 active patent families
Where GitLab innovates Computer engineeringFuzz testingGraphical user interfaceQuery transformationReliability engineering

Where GitLab concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across GitLab 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

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.

Portfolio analysis

9 deals across GitLab's capital deployment.

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

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        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.

        Compare against

        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”.

        Stage
        Period
        9 of 9 deals

        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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