GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij at a company event in London
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GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij, a newcomer from employee division sales who valued the $ 6 billion start-up of software, said he is still looking to bring the company to the public, though keep track of many more options than were previously available.
Sijbrandij on Thursday confirmed CNBC’s late-November report on the company’s valuation in their high-end offer, which allowed employees to sell up to 20% of their sales equity. He provided additional details about the size of the contract and the investors as well as revenue growth and new customers.
GitLab cloud-based software is used by developers to share code and collaborate on projects. The company, which competes with Microsoft’s GitHub and Atlassian, has seen a significant rise as more businesses have become dependent on digital software and tools to run their operations. GitLab specializes in helping coders make product updates faster, reduce labor costs and accelerate development.
GitLab reached $ 150 million in annual recycling revenue, Sijbrandij said, after seeing a 74% growth in the most recent quarter. In 2020, the company signed three major travel regulation companies and providers even as the travel industry had to make major cuts due to the pandemic.
“It was the toughest business last year and even they still bought,” Sibrandij said. “It’s been a difficult year for many of our customers.”
In the “team handbook” on their website, GitLab had made its plan public by November 2020. In the wake of the pandemic early last year, rolling out the economy as a whole, its company expired for the first time as they revealed that a public listing was still on the roadmap.
Sijbrandij said he did the high school to “allow our team members to benefit from the value we created together.” The $ 6 billion valuation is up from a $ 2.7 billion valuation in the end-2019 funding round.
GitLab allowed existing and former employees with a sales parity to sell 4.9 million shares, bringing the total offer to $ 195 million. Investors who bought the stock included Alta Park, HMI Capital, OMERS Growth Equity, TCV and Verition. For the purpose, GitLab used Nasdaq Private Market, which specifically helps private companies to provide secondary liquidity.
Sijbrandij said there is no timetable for a public market debate, although people familiar with the matter told CNBC in November that it was likely to come in 2021. The company has several ways to consider it. to go public that did not exist or was reasonably appropriate. which was not confirmed before last year.
One direct listing option is the route taken by Spotify, Slack, Palantir and Asana and followed by Roblox, which allows employees to instantly sell shares to new investors. Other companies like Unity, Airbnb and DoorDash have opted for a hybrid auction that allows regulators to choose a price based on bids. And there is an opportunity to go public through a special purpose construction company (SPAC), or a backend merger led by a blank check entity.
“There are a lot more options and we are following the market,” Sijbrandij said. SPACs present “another interesting option that is also on our radar,” he said.
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