A graduate of Y Combinator‘s winter 2015 program, GitLab operates very similarly to GitHub – the exception, however, is that GitLab offers a free, open-source edition of its core platform. Currently, the company has three product offerings: a Community Edition (its core platform offered under an open-source license); GitLab.com (a free SaaS version with limitless private repositories); and an Enterprise Edition (a premium version of its Git platform offered at subscription pricing). More than 100,00 organizations and companies currently use GitLab, including the likes of NASA, CERN, Alibaba, SpaceX, O’Reilly, IBM, and Expedia. And the company had actually already been profitable prior to entering Y Combinator; this seed funding will help GitLab to accelerate its current growth.
