CEO of Gitpod here - we just announced a $25m Series A last month (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/future-of-software-cdes https://www.gitpod.io/blog/future-of-softw

CEO of Gitpod here - we just announced a $25m Series A last month (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/future-of-software-cdes https://www.gitpod.io/blog/future-of-software-cdes), so not looking to get acquired anytime soon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ On the market landscape: the whole market around CDEs (https://www.gitpod.io/cde https://www.gitpod.io/cde) is in its infancy. Our largest competition is local development. We believe that unlike for other creative workflows the convenience threshold for development in the cloud has not (yet) been crossed. We are moving away from self hosted to execute faster on what we always wanted: from history-dependent cobbled local development environments to consistently reproducible, instant, ephemeral Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). You can think of CDEs (https://www.gitpod.io/cde https://www.gitpod.io/cde) as our product north star. Other links: - How Redmonk looks at the market https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/12/01/the-year-of-the-cloud-development-environment/ https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/12/01/the-year-of-the-clo... - Kent Beck https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/cloud-development-environments-tame-complexity-by-reducing-state-4a154ea7959f https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/cloud-development-environm... (full disclosure: Kent invested in the meantime into the company)