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GitHub

GitHub, Inc. runs the GitHub code-hosting platform, of which Issues and Projects are a built-in part. It has been owned by Microsoft since October 2018 and earns its money from paid GitHub plans, Copilot and enterprise add-ons; Issues itself is included in the free plan.

github.comRead on Oct 18, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports.

GitHub Issues at a glance

Founded
2008
Based in
San Francisco
Team
GitHub publishes no headcount of its own. Its owner Microsoft reports 223,000 employees worldwide as of 30 September 2026, across the whole company.
Ownership
Part of a larger company

Who runs GitHub Issues

The people GitHub names itself, or a news report about it names, with the job given there. Their accounts are the ones its own pages link to.

Company details

Ownership
Part of a larger company. Microsoft said on 26 October 2018 that it had completed its acquisition of GitHub, and that GitHub would operate independently and remain an open platform. blogs.microsoft.com
Founded
2008 github.com
Based in
San Francisco github.com
Team
GitHub publishes no headcount of its own. Its owner Microsoft reports 223,000 employees worldwide as of 30 September 2026, across the whole company. news.microsoft.com
Partner program
The GitHub Partner Program runs four tracks: Technology, Services and Channel, Startup and Education. It offers co-branding, training and certification, help from GitHub staff and co-selling. No commission or fee is stated. github.com

Jobs at GitHub

Any open roles at GitHub are on its own careers page. We can’t read a count from there, so have a look.

GitHub careers page

Applications go to GitHub, not to us.

GitHub Issues on social media and the web

Only accounts GitHub links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.

How to contact GitHub

The ways GitHub publishes for reaching it. We don’t list personal email addresses, guessed or otherwise.

GitHub Issues news and launches

Media kit

The GitHub media kit

Everything on this page as a designed PDF to keep or pass on: the facts, the people, the funding with a chart of every round, the products with their grades and pictures, the news and every official channel. Put together by ToolGPA, not by GitHub.

Download the media kitRead it here

Questions about GitHub Issues the company

Who runs GitHub Issues?

GitHub's pages name Jay Parikh (Executive Vice President, CoreAI, Microsoft), Kyle Daigle (Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer), Vladimir Fedorov (Chief Technology Officer) and Mario Rodriguez (Chief Product Officer). None of them is named as chief executive on the pages read, as read on Oct 18, 2026.

When was GitHub Issues founded?

GitHub was founded in 2008, according to github.com.

Is GitHub Issues funded by investors?

Microsoft said on 26 October 2018 that it had completed its acquisition of GitHub, and that GitHub would operate independently and remain an open platform. Its money comes from the company that owns it, not from rounds of its own.

Who owns GitHub Issues?

Microsoft said on 26 October 2018 that it had completed its acquisition of GitHub, and that GitHub would operate independently and remain an open platform.

Where is GitHub Issues based?

GitHub gives its base as San Francisco.

How many people work at GitHub Issues?

GitHub publishes no headcount of its own. Its owner Microsoft reports 223,000 employees worldwide as of 30 September 2026, across the whole company.

Is GitHub Issues on social media?

GitHub links to its own accounts on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and GitHub. The links are on this page, taken from GitHub's own site.

Where this comes from

Read on Oct 18, 2026. Facts come from GitHub’s own pages, news reports and investors’ own announcements; nothing from paid data sites. What no page states is left out. If something here is out of date, the company can send a correction through the vendor page.

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