Gitpod provides open-source, ready-to-code Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) that automate the setup and maintenance of development workspaces to reduce friction and improve developer productivity. The platform integrates with common tools and is designed for instant, reproducible, ephemeral workspaces that address drifting local configurations. Gitpod reports more than 750,000 developers use the product and says customers can save up to five hours per engineer per week. The company recently completed a SOC2 Type II audit and plans roadmap work around dramatically faster startup times, improved resiliency, a new Gitpod Cloud offering for larger companies, expanded integrations (plugins/APIs) and collaborative preview environments. Leadership additions and changes accompany the funding: Johannes Landgraf becomes single CEO and joins the board, Tom Preston-Werner and Juliet Bailin will join the board, and Gitpod named new heads of product, sales, and customer success. Gitpod provides an open source solution that automates provisioning of fully prebuilt, secure development environments so professional teams can start working on any project, branch, or device. The platform is designed to reduce setup friction by delivering ready-to-code workspaces for developers. Gitpod is led by CEO Sven Efftinge and is used by more than 350,000 developers globally. The company intends to use the new capital to further automate development environments and to grow its open source community and ecosystem partnerships. Financially, Gitpod raised $13M in funding as reported on 09/04/2021. Gitpod is an open-source developer platform that automates provisioning of ready-to-code development environments. Led by Co-Founder and CEO Sven Efftinge, Gitpod is a GitOps solution that leverages the version control system as the canonical source of truth to automate what developers need to start coding. The platform integrates with GitLab, GitHub and Bitbucket and can be used with different cloud providers and git-hosting platforms. Gitpod is available as an open source solution free to any developer and aims to save engineering teams time by automating local dev environment setup and improving collaboration. The company plans to use the funding to further refine its development-environment automation platform and to expand its open source community and ecosystem partnerships. Gitpod is based in Kiel, Germany and recently raised $3M in seed funding.

Total raised

$41M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Nov 2022