Redgate Celebrates 25th Birthday, Launches Community Support Initiatives and Announces Commercial Milestone
July 16 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Redgate, the end-to-end Database DevOps solution provider, is
celebrating its 25th anniversary this week with the launch of
charitable and community support initiatives, alongside the
announcement of a major commercial milestone.
Today, Redgate is announcing it has reached $100 million in
annual recurring revenue (ARR), a testament to its commitment to
innovation, customer satisfaction, and talent development. From a
two-person start-up founded in 1999, Redgate has grown to a global
business providing Database DevOps software solutions for more than
200,000 IT professionals globally.
“We could not be celebrating this milestone without the
continued support and engagement of our customers and users,” said
Jakub Lamik, CEO of Redgate. “Redgate has always aimed to create
ingeniously simple software, making our tools intuitive to use
while also solving complex customer problems, and we’re incredibly
grateful for the confidence and trust our customers place in our
solutions. The team of more than 550 Redgaters around the world are
proud to be celebrating our 25th anniversary, and we’re committed
to many more years of innovation within the database industry.”
Committed to community support
Since Redgate was founded, it has been known for supporting the
broad data community with educational resources and events. The
company is underlining its 25th anniversary with further
initiatives to support its community of customers and users, as
well as the broader communities it works within.
Firstly, supporting the company’s commitment to fostering
knowledge and skills in the data industry, Redgate is offering ten
PASS Summit Futures Scholarship packages to PASS Data Community
Summit 2024 in Seattle this November. This initiative, which funds
the ticket price, travel and accommodation, aims to provide
learning opportunities for students and early years career
professionals who are passionate about database development and
management, and might not otherwise be able to attend. Futures
Scholarship candidates can apply here.
The Futures Scholarship is in addition to a separate
scholarship, the PASS Charitable Organization Scholarship. In this
initiative, data professionals who work for a charity can now apply
for a complimentary 3-day ticket to attend this year’s event. The
Charitable Organization Scholarship is funding 16 complimentary
3-day tickets, supporting professionals who work for organizations
with limited learning and development budgets.
PASS Summit, the iconic event which Redgate took ownership of in
2021, gives the data community unparalleled access to connect,
learn and share with an international community of peers. Redgate
wants to make this event as accessible as possible for as many as
possible.
In addition, and in line with its environmental, social and
governance (ESG) programme, Redgate is giving back to the community
by making charitable donations to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a
Cambridge-based charitable organization which supports coding
education in over 100 countries worldwide.
Redgate’s ESG programme focuses on supporting UN Sustainable
Development Goals around climate action, industry, innovation and
infrastructure, and quality education for all. Partnering with the
Raspberry Pi Foundation for this donation will support young people
to access its Code Club programme, furthering its mission to teach
young people all over the world to code. The Raspberry Pi
Foundation also conducts leading-edge research into computing
education, and helps educators support and empower STEM
learners.
Supporting charities local to Redgate’s international offices,
donations have also been made to the Cambridge Science Centre,
British Columbia Schizophrenia Society, Save the Children, World
Animal Protection, Cavalier Rescue, and Tafel Deutschland.
Commercial milestones and success
Redgate’s $100m ARR milestone reflects both a successful recent
transition to a subscriptions-based business model and underscores
the company’s robust commercial health. In recent months, Redgate
has launched products including Redgate Test Data Manager and
Redgate Monitor Enterprise, and also acquired DB-Engines, a valued,
independent source of objective data providing insights on multiple
database platforms to the community.
Since the company was founded in 1999, Redgate has been at the
forefront of the rapidly evolving database management landscape,
launching new solutions to enable automated database deployments,
and always operating with customer success in mind. The team is
proud to celebrate 25 years of Redgate and looks forward to
continued innovation and development.
You can also participate in the 25th birthday celebrations on
Redgate’s LinkedIn and X social channels where we are celebrating
#Redgate25 with some nostalgic images and videos.
Snapshot of Key Moments in Redgate’s History
- 1999: Redgate is founded by former schoolfriends Neil Davidson
and Simon Galbraith, launching the first version of SQL
Compare.
- 2000: Redgate establishes its first office in Cambridge.
- 2001: Redgate expands into .NET.
- 2005: Redgate launches Simple Talk, offering in-depth technical
articles and opinion pieces.
- 2007: Redgate wins a place in the Top 10 Best Small Companies
to Work For awards.
- 2009: Redgate enters the cross-database market for the first
time with the launch of Schema Compare for Oracle.
- 2011: Redgate opens its first US office, in Pasadena, CA.
- 2013: Neil Davidson steps down as co-CEO.
- 2016: Redgate’s new US HQ opens in Austin, TX. Redgate launches
the first State of Database DevOps report.
- 2018: Redgate opens new office in Brisbane, Australia.
- 2019: Redgate opens its Berlin office, and acquires
Flyway.
- 2021: Simon Galbraith steps down as Redgate’s CEO, succeeded by
Jakub Lamik. Redgate acquires the assets of PASS, initially hosting
the PASS Data Community Summit as a virtual event due to
COVID.
- 2022: Redgate makes a successful shift to a subscription model
for its customers.
- 2023: Redgate opens a third US office in New Jersey, and moves
to new office spaces in Cambridge, Austin, Pasadena and
Berlin.
- 2024: Redgate acquires DB-Engines.
- 2024: Redgate celebrates its 25th birthday. Today, 92% of the
Fortune 100 trust Redgate to solve their complex database
management challenges.
About Redgate Software
Redgate offers end-to-end database DevOps to help enterprises
streamline software development and get value from their data
faster.
Redgate's portfolio of solutions helps organizations reliably
solve the complex challenges of database management across the
DevOps lifecycle on any database, anywhere. We make life easier for
IT leaders, development and operations teams, increasing
efficiency, reducing errors and protecting business-critical
data.
More than 200,000 companies globally, including 92% of the
Fortune 100, trust Redgate to deliver ingeniously simple
software.
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Meghana Shendrikar Allison Worldwide for Redgate Software
redgate@allisonworldwide.com