Chainguard

Supply chain security for software containers.

chainguard.dev

HQ: Remote

Cybersecurity

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 2, 2026

Overview

Chainguard, Inc. is a privately held cybersecurity company founded by open-source and cloud-native pioneers. It describes itself as the “trusted source for open source,” delivering hardened, continuously updated, verifiable software artifacts so engineering and AI teams can build faster, meet compliance requirements, and reduce software-supply-chain risk. [Chainguard About; company launch post]

Primary product

Chainguard’s primary product family is its catalog of secure-by-default Chainguard Containers: minimal container images built from source, continuously rebuilt, signed, and supplied with SBOMs, provenance, and vulnerability-remediation commitments. The portfolio now also includes Libraries, VMs, OS Packages, Actions, Agent Skills, Factory, and Scanners.

Founded

2021

Headquarters

Kirkland, Washington, United States

Team size

Approximately 500–600 employees (third-party/current-profile estimate; directory sources report wider ranges, including about 580–706).

Work style

Remote

Industry

Computer and network security

Sub-industry

Software supply-chain security; secure open-source infrastructure; DevSecOps/cloud-native security

Offices

Kirkland, Washington, United States (HQ)

Marietta, Georgia, United States

San Francisco, California, United States (team hub)

Colorado, United States (team hub)

Ireland (team hub)

Business model

B2B enterprise software subscriptions and licenses

Per-image licensing for Containers and VMs

Engineering-organization-sized catalog licensing, starting at $19,000 for a 10-person team

Developer-count licensing for Libraries

Enterprise services and support

Free tier for up to five container images

Funding

Stage

Late-stage, venture-backed; Series D plus subsequent non-dilutive/revenue-linked financing

Total raised

$892M

Latest round

Non-dilutive financing / Customer Value Fund facility · Oct 2025

Latest amount

$280M

Non-dilutive financing / Customer Value Fund

Oct 2025 · General Catalyst

$280M

Growth financing

Oct 2025 · General Catalyst

$280M

Series D

Apr 2025 · Kleiner Perkins and IVP

$356M

Series C

Jul 2024 · Redpoint Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and IVP

$140M

Series B

Nov 2023 · Spark Capital

$61M

Series A

Jun 2022 · Sequoia Capital

$50M

Seed

Dec 2021 · Amplify Partners

$5M

People & investors

Leadership

Dan Lorenc

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Matt Moore

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Ville Aikas

Co-Founder

Eyal Bar

Chief Financial Officer

Quincy Castro

Chief Information Security Officer

Liz Walton Egan

Chief Marketing Officer

Parm Uppal

Chief Revenue Officer

Patrick Donahue

SVP, Product

Dustin Kirkland

SVP, Engineering

Grace Shiell

VP, People

Lindsey Krieger

VP, General Counsel

Founders

Kim Lewandowski

Co-Founder

Scott Nichols

Co-Founder

Investors

Work & culture

Chainguard presents a remote-first, people-centric culture built around open-source stewardship and secure-by-default engineering. Its published engineering principles are: reduce complexity, empower individuals, engineer the value proposition, and ensure production excellence. Benefits and recruiting materials emphasize autonomy, distributed work, team meetups, and strong equity participation.

Work style

Remote

Compensation

Public job listings show senior technical and solutions roles commonly advertised around roughly $157,000–$231,000 base salary in the United States, plus equity; exact ranges vary by role and geography. Chainguard states that it grants stock options at hire and promotion and allows a 10-year exercise period. Public visa records show historical H-1B activity but no recent FY2025 LCA filings in the cited database; sponsorship should be confirmed per role.

Benefits

100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and dependents

18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents; 12 weeks bonding leave for non-birthing parents

Flexible/unlimited time off

$300 monthly wellness stipend

$18,000 lifetime family-planning support

$1,500 annual professional-development budget

$1,750 one-time home-office setup budget

Remote-work, coworking, phone, and internet stipends

Team meetups and twice-yearly destination summits

Stock options at hire and promotion with a 10-year exercise window

Product & market

Pricing

Containers: free access to up to five images, per-image licensing, or catalog licensing by engineering-organization size; catalog pricing starts at $19,000 for a 10-person team. Libraries are licensed by language ecosystem and developer count. VMs offer per-image/scoped enterprise and catalog models. Enterprise pricing is quote-based.

Differentiators

—Artifacts are built from verifiable source rather than merely scanned after publication
—Minimal images and packages designed to reduce attack surface and known CVEs
—Continuous rebuilding and patching with signed provenance, SBOMs, and SLSA-aligned build infrastructure
—Wolfi/Distroless/open-source ecosystem expertise and deep maintainer credentials
—Single expanding catalog across containers, language libraries, VMs, OS packages, CI/CD Actions, and AI-agent skills
—Developer workflow integration intended to avoid security friction
—Commercial SLAs and compliance evidence for enterprise and regulated workloads

Technology

Kubernetes

Linux

Wolfi

Distroless

Sigstore

SLSA

SBOMs

OCI/container images

GitHub Actions

Google Cloud

Cloud Run

gRPC

TypeScript

React

GraphQL

Terraform/HashiCorp tooling

Grafana

GitHub

Customers

Anduril

ANZ Bank

Canva

Checkmarx

Cyera

Fortinet

GitLab

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

OpenAI

Snap Inc.

Snowflake

Sourcegraph

Wiz

Department of Homeland Security

Booz Allen Hamilton / U.S. government programs

Competitors

Anchore

Aqua Security

Snyk

Sysdig

Docker

Red Hat

Palo Alto Networks

JFrog

Sonatype

RapidFort

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Approximately $40 million ARR reported by Chainguard for FY2025; treat as an ARR/revenue signal rather than audited annual revenue. Third-party directory estimates vary substantially.

Estimated monthly visits

163.2K

team@chainguard.dev +1 518-248-0862

Signals & risks

Layoff

May 2026

A former Chainguard employee publicly reported being affected by layoffs. No formal company-wide layoff count or restructuring announcement was found, so the scope is unverified.

Source

Other

Third-party LinkedIn/company-directory signals list several departures, including co-founder Kim Lewandowski and other leaders/employees. Kim publicly described stepping back from Chainguard in June 2026; this is a leadership transition, not evidence of a shutdown.

Source

Latest news

Booz Allen Hamilton signs enterprise license agreement with Chainguard

Chainguard Unchained / company announcement listing · Jul 2026

Chainguard reported that Booz Allen would roll out Chainguard Containers to more than 6,000 engineers across defense, intelligence, and federal civilian programs.

Chainguard extends Repository scanning and policies to Java, Python and containers

SiliconANGLE · Jun 2026

Repository’s malware scanning and policy controls expanded beyond JavaScript to Java, Python, and container images.

Chainguard and Cursor Partner to Secure Agentic Coding with Trusted Open Source

PR Newswire / Chainguard · Apr 2026

Chainguard announced a partnership with Cursor to provide hardened, verifiable containers and language libraries for AI-generated software workflows.

Everything we announced at Chainguard Assemble 2026

Chainguard Unchained · Mar 2026

Chainguard announced OS Packages, Catalog Starter, Commercial Builds, Repository, Actions, Agent Skills, and the Guardener, broadening its secure-artifact catalog.

Security startup Chainguard lands $280 million from General Catalyst to boost sales

Reuters · Oct 2025

General Catalyst provided $280 million of non-dilutive, revenue-linked financing after Chainguard’s $356 million Series D, intended to fund go-to-market expansion in the U.S. and Europe.

Jobs and careers at Chainguard

80 jobs at Chainguard

Director, EMEA Government Affairs & Public Policy

Remote

Corporate Marketing

Europe - Remote; Remote - Germany; Remote - UK

1d ago

Remote

Full-time