GitHub
platform San Francisco, California Founded 2008 1000+ employees
GitHub is a Microsoft-owned software development platform founded in 2008, hosting 200M+ repositories for 100M+ developers. Acquired by Microsoft for $7.5B in 2018.
About GitHub
GitHub is a cloud-based platform for version control and collaboration using Git, acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for $7.5 billion. The platform hosts over 200 million repositories and serves more than 100 million developers as of 2024. GitHub offers source code hosting, pull request workflows, CI/CD through GitHub Actions, project management, code security scanning, and AI-powered development tools including GitHub Copilot. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft.