GitHub is owned by Microsoft (the United States, NASDAQ: MSFT), which acquired the brand on 26 October 2018 for $7.5 billion.[1][2] GitHub was founded in 2008 in San Francisco, California and was independent until 2018.
Evidence: Microsoft Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-07-29, SEC EDGAR, 29 July 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
GitHub hosts most of the world's open-source code. Microsoft acquired it in 2018 for $7.5 billion, which alarmed a developer community that had spent two decades treating the company as hostile to open source, though the platform was largely left alone afterwards.
Sentences about GitHub from Microsoft's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
GitHub provides a collaboration platform for developers to manage code and incorporate AI and agent-based tools across the software development lifecycle.
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Microsoft controls 15 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in internet & digital.
The 32 brands in productivity & developer tools on Brandtree belong to 20 owners. The largest is Dropbox, with 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| DocSend | Dropbox | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Baidu Drive | Baidu | 🇨🇳 China |
| 4PS | Hilti | 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein |
| Google Cloud | Alphabet | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Angi | IAC | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Base44 | Wix | 🇮🇱 Israel |
| DingTalk | Alibaba | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon | 🇺🇸 United States |
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Microsoft is a publicly listed company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States, founded in 1975. Brandtree records 15 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: MSFT.
Microsoft was founded in 1975 writing a BASIC interpreter for an early hobbyist computer and became dominant by licensing an operating system to every PC maker rather than building the machines. It has since bought several of the largest consumer internet properties, including the biggest acquisition in the history of video games.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; GitHub is not one of them.
Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. The European Commission cleared the deal unconditionally in October 2018, finding no risk that the buyer would degrade the platform for rival developer tools.
The parent company of GitHub is Microsoft, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. GitHub originated in the United States in 2008 and its owner, Microsoft, is also headquartered in the United States.
Microsoft completed its acquisition of GitHub on 26 October 2018, after announcing the deal on 4 June 2018. The deal was valued at $7.5 billion.
GitHub was an independent company from its founding in 2008 in San Francisco, California until Microsoft acquired it in 2018.
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, GitHub is still owned by Microsoft. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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