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Chainguard

Chainguard sells hardened, zero-CVE builds of open source software so engineering teams can ship without patching vulnerabilities.

chainguard.dev · Kirkland

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StageGrowth Financing (General Catalyst CVF)October 2025 · led by General Catalyst[1][9]
Raised$892Mdisclosed rounds[9][5]
Headcount580as of Aug 2026[5]
Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger
Founded2021[5][7][14]
Money

Raised $892M across disclosed rounds.[9][5]

Growth Financing (General Catalyst CVF) closed October 2025, led by General Catalyst.[1][9]

post-money valuation is not publicly disclosed.

Named investors include Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures, Datadog Ventures, Mantis VC, Kerrest & Co., General Catalyst.[2][4][8][9]

People

Dan Lorenc, CEO and Co-founder[3][10][21]

Eyal Bar, Chief Financial Officer[5][9][11][13][21]

Lindsey Henry Krieger, VP, General Counsel[5][9][11][13][21]

Reid Tatoris, VP of Product[5][9][11][13][21]

Andrew Li, VP of Engineering[5][9][11][13][21]

Signals
Oct 23 2025fundingChainguard Announces $280 Million Growth Financing from General Catalyst to Usher in Next Era of Trusted Open Source Software[9][1]
Aug 21 2025launchChainguard Assessed Awardable for Department of Defense Work in the P1 Marketplace company claim, not independently confirmed[5]
Comps

Snyk · snyk.io · Same buyer (engineering and security teams) and same budget line (software supply chain security), but Snyk detects and remediates vulnerabilities in existing code while Chainguard replaces vulnerable artifacts with hardened builds.[5][14]

Anchore · anchore.com · Same buyer and same workflow of securing container images and software supply chains; Anchore scans images for CVEs while Chainguard provides pre-hardened zero-CVE images.[5]

Sonatype · sonatype.com · Same buyer and same job of securing open source dependencies; Sonatype scans and governs components while Chainguard rebuilds and hardens them from source.[5]

Edera · edera.dev · Same buyer (container security teams) and founded by former Chainguard engineers; Edera competes for the same container hardening and runtime security budget.[5][12]

Risk

The customer proof is company-sourced only. No independent source in this ledger confirms it.[5]

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Chainguard sells hardened, zero-CVE builds of open source software so engineering teams can ship without patching vulnerabilities.

chainguard.dev · Kirkland

StageGrowth Financing (General Catalyst CVF)
Raised$892M
Headcount580
Valuationnot publicly disclosed
Founded2021
CompsSnyk +3

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