Who owns GitLab?
Eleanor Gray
Updated on April 06, 2026
| Owner | GitLab Inc. |
| Founder(s) | Sid Sijbrandij Dmitriy Zaporozhets |
| Key people | Sid Sijbrandij (CEO) Dmitriy Zaporozhets (CTO) |
| Industry | Software |
| Employees | 1141 |
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Keeping this in view, is GitLab owned by Microsoft?
GitLab, an open source developer collaboration service, is waving bye-bye to Microsoft Azure and moving to Google Cloud Platform, following Microsoft's deal to acquire GitHub, GitLab's competitor.
Also Know, is GitLab owned by GitHub? GitHub is a Git-based repository hosting platform with 26 million users (March 2017). Similar to GitHub, GitLab is a repository manager which lets teams collaborate on code. Written in Ruby and Go, GitLab offers some similar features for issue tracking and project management as GitHub.
Simply so, who bought GitLab?
Microsoft won that bid and was able to purchase GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. Alphabet had invested $20 million in GitLab in a previous investment round in October 2017.
What is difference between GitLab and GitHub?
Both GitLab (and GitLab.com) and GitHub (and GitHub.com) are products providing Git repository hosting service. The main advantage of GitLab is its opensource nature, which allows you to run GitLab on your own servers. GitLab allows unlimited private repositories for free whereas for GitHub, it is not free.
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