Gitpod, a Kiel, Germany-based open source development platform that builds ready-to-code workspaces in the cloud, raised $25m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Tom Preston-Werner, founder and former CEO at GitHub, with participation from existing investors General Catalyst, Crane Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures US and Speedinvest, as well as Pebblebed; GTMfund; MongoDB Ventures; Tobi Lütke, founder and CEO, Shopify and Olivier Pomel, founder and CEO, Datadog and Kent Beck, signatory of the Agile Manifesto.
The Series A allows Gitpod to accelerate innovation for its open platform that automates the provisioning of ready-to-code, secure and collaborative workspaces for all professional software teams.
Led by Johannes Landgraf, co-founder and CEO, and co-founder Sven Efftinge, Gitpod is an open source development platform for teams to develop software together. Born in the cloud, Gitpod’s Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) help developers to be always ready-to-code from any device, from anywhere. Integrated with all the popular tools, it is used by more than 750,000 developers, from open source projects to high growth companies and enterprises.
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03/11/2022