The company was founded by Neil Davidson and Simon Galbraith in October 1999. It is named after Via Porta Rossa (Red Gate Street) in
Florence, Italy, close to where Davidson used to live. On 20 August 2008, Redgate announced it was taking responsibility for future development of the free tool
.NET Reflector. On 22 March 2010, HyperBac Technologies (formerly known as Xceleon Technologies) was acquired by Redgate. In 2010, Redgate re-launched Springboard with a different model where teams would again receive
investment and mentoring, but this time in exchange for an
equity stake. One such recipient of investment-for-equity in 2016 was
Berlin-based 3T Software Labs, makers of Studio 3T, the
IDE for MongoDB, a popular NoSQL database. On 7 March 2017 Microsoft announced the inclusion of Redgate tools in
Visual Studio 2017. Three components were included: ReadyRoll Core and SQL Prompt Core, both in the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio 2017, and SQL Search in all editions. In December 2021, Redgate announced that Jakub Lamik was taking up the position as CEO of the company, and that Galbraith would remain on the board as a non-executive director. ==References==