Chainguard

• Founders:

  Dan Lorenc, Matt Moore, Kim Lewandowski and Ville Aikas​

• Founded:

  2021​

• HQ Base:

  Kirkland, WA​

• Company Size:

  201-500​ Employees

• Total Funding:

  $892M, Series D

Overview​

Chainguard is a cybersecurity company that secures software supply chains by delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready components that all of the open-source software engineers and AI agents rely on. Chainguard helps organisations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.​

Key Technology Insights​

They proactively build and patch container images, language libraries, virtual machines, and AI agent skills to eliminate known vulnerabilities (CVEs) at the source, so engineers spend less time patching.​

Industry Application​

Government, defence and regulated enterprises are the core adopters. US defence vendors run it in production: Anduril went live in a day, and Shift5 cut tens of thousands of CVEs to zero, both meeting the DoD's zero-CVE requirement. ​

Strategic Perspective​

Chainguard shifts supply chain security from scanning and patching toward clean-by-default foundations. Its advantage lies in building from source for provenance, backed by open-source credibility. As regulation tightens and AI accelerates open-source consumption, demand for trusted components grows.