---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001653482-25-000060"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GTLB"
cik: "0001653482"
company_name: "Gitlab Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T16:30:33.733715+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GitLab enters right of first refusal to match acquisition offers for Kilo Code through Aug 2026

## Summary
- GitLab paid $1,000 for a right of first refusal on any third-party acquisition proposal received by Kilo before August 24, 2026.
- Kilo is an affiliate of Sytse Sijbrandij, executive chair of GitLab's Board of Directors.
- The Audit Committee reviewed and approved the agreement.
- If GitLab does not exercise its ROFR within 10 business days, Kilo may proceed with the third-party transaction.
- No acquisition proposal has been received; this is a preemptive matching right.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001653482-25-000060
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GTLB
- cik: 0001653482
- company_name: Gitlab Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653482/000165348225000060/0001653482-25-000060-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653482/000165348225000060/gtlb-20251125.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001653482-25-000060
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001653482-25-000060.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001653482-25-000060.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Gitlab Inc. entered into Right of First Refusal Agreement with Kilo Code, Inc. valued at $1,000 (effective 2025-11-25).
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: Kilo Code, Inc.
  - Value: $1,000
  - Effective: 2025-11-25
  source text: On November 25, 2025, GitLab Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Right of First Refusal Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Kilo Code, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Kilo”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653482/000165348225000060/0001653482-25-000060-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.