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title: "GitHub: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "GitHub is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control, and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-github
type: Organization
wikidata: Q364
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
website: https://github.com
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# GitHub

> GitHub is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control, and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-github

## Facts

- Category: Data and infrastructure
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2007-10-19
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- Status: private
- Website: https://github.com

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/GitHub
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/github
- github: https://github.com/github
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7c3Kb6jYCRj4JOHHZTxKsQ
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GitHub
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/github

## Key people

- Tom Preston-Werner, founder (American businessman)
- Chris Wanstrath, founder (American technology entrepreneur and programmer)
- P. J. Hyett, founder (American software developer and co-founder of GitHub)
- Nat Friedman, chief executive (American computer programmer), since 2018-10-29
- Marcelo Valle Silveira Mello (Brazilian cracker)

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2015-08-06: Form D, USD 251 million sold of a USD 251 million offering, 11 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1555920/000155592015000001/))
- 2012-08-31: Form D, USD 99.5 million sold of a USD 100 million offering, 4 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1555920/000155592012000001/))

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on GitHub, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-github#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q364, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001555920

Part of [AI Companies](https://monitor.paciva.ai/companies.md), the Monitor's directory of every AI company on file.