Overview
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source.
By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. For more information, visit: https://www.chainguard.dev/
The company's team has created and contributed to open source projects such as Kubernetes, Sigstore, Distroless, and DriftlessAF. Its product lineup includes Chainguard Containers, Libraries, VMs, and OS Packages, along with Chainguard Actions and Checks for CI/CD and Agent Skills, Workspaces, and Harness for AI-assisted coding. The catalog covers more than 3,000 container images that are rebuilt from source daily, along with Python, Java, JavaScript, Go, and .NET packages and more than 200 Helm charts.
Chainguard supports compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, PCI DSS, CMMC 2.0, and SOC 2, offers FIPS images, and provides provenance and SBOMs for the artifacts it builds. It serves the technology, public sector, financial services, and telecommunications industries, and it integrates with tools such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, JFrog, and Wiz.
Funding rounds
Disclosed funding: $892M across 6 rounds. Latest: Growth Funding, 24 Oct 2025.
| Date | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Oct 2025 | Growth Funding | $280M |
Office locations
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You Need to Go Beyond SHA Pinning
Recent posts from the Chainguard blog
- Slow CI was bottlenecking our AI agents… so we fixed it. 🤝 Meet Chainguard Checks: Turn your CI into a fast…
pre-commit check, callable from anywhere. ✅ Starts in seconds with dependencies pre-loaded ✅ Runs in isolated microVMs built on zero-CVE Chainguard OS packages ✅ Blocks exfiltration with default-deny network policies and host-side credential injection ✅ Feeds verdicts back into agent loops so agents can iterate until checks pass, so every PR can be born green Chainguard Checks is now available in beta.
- Public registries will give you whatever you ask for (and what you don’t *cough cough malware*).
Chainguard Libraries for Go and.NET only allow you to pull packages that have already been scanned for malicious behavior and vetted for security concerns ✅ Now available in early access.