Chainguard
Chainguard sells hardened, zero-CVE builds of open source software so engineering teams can ship without patching vulnerabilities.
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]
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]
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]
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Edition 2Aug 25 2026current
Since edition 1
- Stage Debt Financing (Customer Value Fund) to Growth Financing (General Catalyst CVF)
- New person Lindsey Henry Krieger, VP, General Counsel
- New person Andrew Li, VP of Engineering
- No longer listed Matt Moore, CTO and Co-Founder
- No longer listed Ville Aikas, Co-Founder and Distinguished Engineer
- No longer listed Kim Lewandowski, Co-Founder and former CPO (departed Feb 2026)
- No longer listed Scott Nichols, Co-Founder (departed 2022)
- No longer listed Patrick Donahue, SVP, Product
- No longer listed Quincy Castro, CISO
- Newly listed Chainguard Assessed Awardable for Department of Defense Work in the P1 Marketplace · Aug 2025
- Sources 17 → 21 (11 new, 7 not used)
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Chainguard
Chainguard sells hardened, zero-CVE builds of open source software so engineering teams can ship without patching vulnerabilities.
Ask for one referenceable production customer.
Not a recommendation. The first thing this ledger cannot answer.