Chainguard is a software supply chain security company focused on delivering hardened, verifiable, production-ready open source artifacts for modern software teams. Its portfolio spans containers, language libraries, virtual machine images, operating system packages, CI/CD workflows, and AI agent skills, giving organizations a trusted source for open source across build and deployment workflows.
Chainguard builds its artifacts from publicly verifiable source code using its automated Chainguard Factory and pairs those artifacts with provenance, signed SBOMs, and ongoing CVE remediation. The company positions this approach as a way for engineering teams to reduce vulnerability management toil, improve compliance readiness, and adopt secure-by-default software without abandoning existing tools and environments.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Chainguard’s core capability is rebuilding open source artifacts from source in hardened build infrastructure, then continuously maintaining them as upstream software and threat conditions change. Across its portfolio, it emphasizes minimalism, signed artifacts, SBOM generation, provenance, policy enforcement, and rapid vulnerability remediation rather than downstream scanning alone.
The platform is designed to fit into existing enterprise workflows. Chainguard supports popular artifact managers such as JFrog Artifactory, Cloudsmith, Harbor, Nexus, Google Artifact Registry, Amazon ECR, and Microsoft ACR, and it integrates with scanners including Snyk, Trivy, AWS Inspector, Wiz, GitLab, CrowdStrike, Qualys, Google Cloud, and Microsoft tooling. It also offers unified access and policy controls through Chainguard Repository and is available through the major cloud marketplaces.
Products and Services
- Chainguard Containers: Minimal, built-from-source container images for more than 2,000 projects, with signed SBOMs, provenance, continuous rebuilds, customization options, and compliance-oriented variants including FIPS-supported offerings.
- Chainguard Libraries: Malware-resistant Python, JavaScript, and Java packages rebuilt from verified source in SLSA Level 3 infrastructure, designed to work through existing developer tools and artifact managers with signatures, SBOMs, and provenance.
- Chainguard VMs: Minimal virtual machine images for container host, base, and application use cases, available across major clouds and on-prem environments with continuous updates, CVE remediation SLAs, and support for regulated deployments.
- Chainguard OS Packages: A catalog of 30,000+ secure packages and select base images delivered through private APK repositories so teams can build custom images with existing tools while offloading package-layer remediation and maintenance.
- Chainguard Actions: A securely rebuilt catalog of CI/CD workflows and GitHub Actions that are analyzed, hardened, continuously maintained, and documented with auditable hardening reports for safer pipeline automation.
- Chainguard Agent Skills: A beta catalog of hardened AI agent skills that addresses skill-specific attack vectors, uses simple SKILL.md-based adoption, and continuously re-evaluates skills as upstream sources or rules change.
- Chainguard Repository: A unified access layer for Chainguard-built artifacts that adds configurable policy enforcement, automated compliance controls, and visibility across containers, libraries, packages, actions, agent skills, and virtual machines.
- The Guardener: An AI-assisted migration offering that rebuilds Dockerfiles layer by layer, validates changes incrementally, and helps teams move from legacy images to trusted Chainguard artifacts with less migration friction.
Target Customers
Chainguard targets engineering, platform, DevOps, and security teams that need secure-by-default open source foundations without slowing software delivery. Its customer base spans fast-growing startups, Fortune 500 enterprises, and government organizations, reflecting demand from teams building and operating modern cloud-native software at different scales.
The company is especially relevant for organizations with strong compliance, audit, or high-assurance requirements. Its offerings are positioned for public sector and regulated environments, including federal and defense use cases as well as healthcare, financial services, and suppliers to those sectors, while also appealing to startup segments such as AI and ML, SaaS, IoT, cybersecurity, fintech, and healthtech.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Chainguard is available through AWS Marketplace, where it offers catalog access and enterprise support, and it also supports AWS-centric distribution paths such as Amazon ECR Public Gallery and pull-through cache integration.
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace: Chainguard is listed on Microsoft Azure Marketplace for its container offerings, enabling streamlined procurement and billing, and it also integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud for container image scanning coverage.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: Chainguard states that it is available on Google Cloud Marketplace as part of its cloud provider presence, and its VM and scanning support extends to Google Cloud environments including Compute Engine.
Key People
- Dan Lorenc: Chief Executive Officer
- Matt Moore: Chief Technology Officer
- Eyal Bar: Chief Financial Officer
- Quincy Castro: Chief Information Security Officer
- Parm Uppal: Chief Revenue Officer
- Liz Egan: Chief Marketing Officer
- Patrick Donahue: SVP of Product
- Dustin Kirkland: SVP of Engineering
- Ville Aikas: Distinguished Engineer & Co-Founder
- Lindsey Krieger: VP, General Counsel
- Grace Shiell: VP of People
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Kirkland, Washington, United States
- Employees: 201-500
- Annual Revenue: $40M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: Privately held
Analyst Recognitions
- IDC: IDC Innovator in IDC Innovators: Open Source Software Supply Chain Security, 2023.
- Gartner: Cool Vendor in Gartner Cool Vendors in Platform Engineering for Scaling Application Security Practices, 2023.
