About Gitpod

Make software engineering collaborative and joyful again.

Developers write software within languages/frameworks, build tools, glue them together to (tool) chains, develop against APIs and communicate and collaborate with our colleagues. All of that should be efficient, joyful and secure.

Yet it is not. Devs constantly struggle with larger codebases, cluttered dependencies, security policies and unnecessary friction in their workflows.

We want to make developers feel again that everything is at their fingertips.

Gitpod was founded because we were frustrated by manually setting up and maintaining dev environments.

We are building Gitpod in the open to easily spin-up fresh dev environments for any task. Those ephemeral environments are fast & powerful, fully automated & initialized. They empower developers to immediately start coding, debugging, and testing their code.

Only then developers are always ready-to-code.

Built on shared principles

Values are important to us. We are developer-led and aim for a frictionless experience when interacting with our product, our company and our brand: no hurdles, no BS, no unnecessary extra steps.

We believe in the benefits of an open culture. We are open minded, inclusive, transparent and curious. We always remain students of the game, not masters of the game. We have opinions, but are not opinionated. We integrate, don't dictate.

Find out more

We have always built in the open. If you want to learn more take a look through of our public Notion pages.

💻 How we work 🔨 How we develop

Backed by great investors

Gitpod Inc. was founded in 2020 and in early 2021 we raised over $13m from General Catalyst and our early backers Speedinvest, Crane and Vertex. We are proud to work with experienced, international investors and great individuals who have been early backers of SignalFX Cloudera Couchbase Snyk Render Buildkite LaunchDarkly H20 Hasura Instana and several other exciting companies in the world of developer tools and open source software.

Collaboration with strong partners like GitLab,
JetBrains & Tailscale

We are strong believers in creating better-together partnerships. World-leading software companies are teaming up with us to make remote development the best choice for developers.