GitHub

About GitHub

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

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Competitive Landscape

Who GitHub competes with, and how they differ.

GitLab8.1/10

GitLab bundles source control, CI/CD, security scanning and project planning into one self-hostable DevOps platform, versus GitHub's SaaS-first, marketplace/ecosystem-driven approach to the same workflow.

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B

Bitbucket

Atlassian's Bitbucket targets teams already standardized on Jira and Trello, bundling git hosting tightly into that suite rather than competing on GitHub's open-source network effects and Actions marketplace.

A

Azure DevOps

Microsoft's own Azure DevOps is a separate git-hosting and CI/CD suite aimed at enterprise .NET/Azure shops with Boards/Repos/Pipelines, overlapping with GitHub Enterprise despite common ownership.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in GitHub's history, with sources.

1. Jan 25, 2023Milestone

   GitHub surpasses 100 million developers

   GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced on the GitHub Blog that the platform had officially passed 100 million developers, two years ahead of a 2019 internal goal.

   github.blog
2. Oct 25, 2022Milestone

   Microsoft: GitHub reaches $1B annual recurring revenue

   CEO Satya Nadella announced on the fourth anniversary of the acquisition that GitHub had reached $1 billion in annual recurring revenue and 90 million+ active users, up from 28 million at close.

   techcrunch.com
3. Jun 21, 2022Launch

   GitHub Copilot becomes generally available

   GitHub Copilot exited technical preview and became available to all developers; GitHub reported 1.2 million signups during the preview and Copilot suggesting ~40% of newly written code in enabled files.

   github.blog
4. Jun 29, 2021Launch

   GitHub Copilot launches in technical preview

   GitHub introduced Copilot, an AI pair programmer built on OpenAI Codex, as a limited technical preview priced at $10/month (free for students and open-source maintainers).

   github.blog
5. Mar 16, 2020Acquisition

   GitHub acquires npm

   GitHub, then-CEO Nat Friedman announced GitHub had signed an agreement to acquire npm Inc., the company behind the JavaScript package registry used by roughly 12 million developers.

   github.blog
6. May 23, 2019Acquisition

   GitHub acquires Dependabot

   GitHub acquired Dependabot, the automated dependency-update tool for Ruby, JavaScript, Python and PHP projects, and integrated it directly into GitHub security features, announced at GitHub Satellite.

   winbuzzer.com
7. Oct 26, 2018Milestone

   Microsoft completes $7.5B acquisition of GitHub

   Microsoft's all-stock acquisition of GitHub officially closed after EU regulatory approval; GitHub then had 31 million developers on the platform.

   techcrunch.com
8. Oct 16, 2018Launch

   GitHub unveils GitHub Actions

   GitHub launched GitHub Actions, a workflow automation and CI/CD tool that lets developers run code directly on GitHub rather than only host it, initially rolled out in staged batches.

   techcrunch.com
9. Jun 4, 2018Acquisition

   Microsoft announces acquisition of GitHub for $7.5B

   Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, then used by more than 28 million developers, for $7.5 billion in an all-stock deal; Nat Friedman became GitHub CEO.

   news.microsoft.com
10. Jul 29, 2015Funding

    Series B — $250M led by Sequoia Capital

    GitHub raised a $250 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital and IVP, bringing total outside funding to $350 million at a valuation reported by WSJ near $2 billion.

    techcrunch.com
11. Jul 9, 2012Funding

    Series A — $100M led by Andreessen Horowitz

    GitHub took its first outside investment, a $100 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, at a reported $750 million valuation; the round funded GitHub Enterprise development.

    techcrunch.com
12. Apr 10, 2008Founded

    GitHub launches publicly

    GitHub launched as a web-based hosting service for Git repositories, founded by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett and Scott Chacon in San Francisco.

    en.wikipedia.org