What is Chainguard?
Chainguard provides guarded open-source software, container images, libraries, and supply-chain security tooling built from source and updated continuously.
- Category
- Software supply chain security
- Headquarters
- Kirkland, WA / remote-first
- Founded
- 2021
- Employees
- 700+ reported
- Total funding
- $612M raised
- Valuation
- $3.5B after Series D
What is Chainguard?
Chainguard is a software supply chain security company. Chainguard provides guarded open-source software, container images, libraries, and supply-chain security tooling built from source and updated continuously.
Chainguard provides guarded open-source software, container images, libraries, and supply-chain security tooling built from source and updated continuously. The company sells to engineering, platform, security, and compliance teams that need secure base images, SBOMs, provenance, and hardened open-source components for AI and cloud workloads. The durable market signal is that Chainguard sits close to a budget owner: security, AI platform, healthcare operations, engineering, developer productivity, or defense procurement depending on the account.
As of June 2026, the company profile is best read through product adoption, funding stage, leadership, and ecosystem partnerships rather than through public revenue, because most companies in this batch do not disclose ARR. Buyers generally evaluate Chainguard on deployment risk, integration depth, compliance posture, and measurable operational impact.
Sources:ChainguardChainguard Series D
What does Chainguard offer?
Chainguard offers products and workflows across Chainguard Images, Chainguard Libraries, SBOM and provenance and adjacent platform capabilities.
- Chainguard Images· Container security
- Chainguard Libraries· Open source
- SBOM and provenance· Supply chain
- Wolfi· Linux distribution
- SLSA-aligned builds· Build security
- Compliance artifacts· Governance
Sources:ChainguardChainguard Series D
How does Chainguard make money?
Revenue comes from subscriptions to Chainguard Images and Libraries, enterprise support, compliance features, and platform usage across developer organizations.
Revenue comes from subscriptions to Chainguard Images and Libraries, enterprise support, compliance features, and platform usage across developer organizations. Chainguard sells enterprise subscriptions for image catalogs, libraries, compliance features, support, and usage; detailed contract pricing is negotiated.
The commercial motion is enterprise-oriented: buyers pay when the platform becomes part of a production workflow, compliance program, developer process, or operational control plane. Growth is driven by more covered users or assets, deeper integrations, expansion from pilots into production, and higher support or governance requirements.
Sources:ChainguardChainguard Series D
Who leads Chainguard?
Chainguard is led by Dan Lorenc and Matt Moore with operating leaders across product, engineering, revenue, and security or domain expertise.
- Dan LorencCo-founder and CEOFounder, since 2021Supply-chain security leader and former Google open-source security engineer.
- Matt MooreCo-founder and CTOFounder, since 2021Technical co-founder focused on secure builds and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Kim LewandowskiCo-founder and CPOFounder, since 2021Product leader and open-source security advocate.
- Ville AikasCo-founderFounder, since 2021Cloud-native technology co-founder.
How do you contact Chainguard's leadership?
Chainguard does not publish verified personal executive emails in the sources used for this profile, so leadership outreach should use the official route shown here unless a published direct contact exists.
official demo/contact form; personal format not verifiedSources:ChainguardChainguard Series D
How much funding has Chainguard raised?
Chainguard's current public funding signal is $612M raised; latest valuation/status is $3.5B after Series D.
2021: Seed - $5M. Seed funding launched Chainguard around software supply-chain security. 2022-2023: Series A and B. Sequoia, Spark, Amplify, and others supported early growth. Jul 2024: Series C - $140M. Redpoint, Lightspeed, and IVP led the Series C, bringing total funding to $256M. Apr 2025: Series D - $356M. Kleiner Perkins and IVP co-led the Series D, bringing total raised to $612M at a $3.5B valuation.
Because Chainguard is private or recently acquired, public financing data should be read as a directional capital-history snapshot, not a real-time cap table. The most reliable signal is the latest announced round or transaction, combined with hiring, product expansion, and customer-market focus.
How did Chainguard get here?
Chainguard's milestones show a shift from founding and early product validation into category expansion and larger enterprise or strategic relevance.
- 2021FoundedChainguard launches to secure open-source software supply chains.
- 2022Wolfi and images adoptionThe company builds a secure Linux distribution and image catalog.
- Jul 2024Series CChainguard raises $140M for AI workload and open-source security.
- Apr 2025Series DChainguard raises $356M at a $3.5B valuation.
- 2025Image catalog growthPublic reporting cites image catalog growth from 400 to 1,400 images and revenue from $5M to $40M.
- 2026Safe source positioningChainguard markets itself as the safe source for open source.
Sources:ChainguardChainguard Series D
Who are Chainguard's competitors?
Chainguard competes with focused startups and larger platform incumbents that already own adjacent enterprise workflows.
- DockerContainer platform with official images and developer tooling.
- Red HatEnterprise Linux and OpenShift incumbent with certified container content.
- SnykDeveloper security platform with container and open-source scanning.
- JFrogSoftware supply-chain platform for artifacts, security, and distribution.
- SonatypeOpen-source governance and repository management incumbent.
- AnchoreContainer and SBOM security platform.
Sources:ChainguardChainguard Series D
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