Chainguard – a leader in software supply chain security – recently announced it has completed a $61 million Series B round of funding led by Spark Capital and existing investors Sequoia Capital, Amplify Partners, The Chainsmoker’s Mantis VC, and Banana Capital.
In the past six months alone, the company’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) has tripled, and its hardened and secure container image solution is now used by Fortune 500 companies and technology providers such as GitGuardian, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Sourcegraph, Snowflake, and Replicated.
Chainguard expanded its Images solution to include a growing inventory of secure container images with over a million image builds, allowing developers to build safe software with the tools and applications they know and love. And the solution also includes a comprehensive API for customers to understand changes in vulnerability status from Image version to version and critical software supply chain security requirements like Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) and software signatures.
Chainguard recently hired its first President, Ryan Carlson, former Chief Marketing Officer at Okta and Wiz. And Dustin Kirkland also joined as the company’s first Vice President of Engineering, following product and engineering leadership roles at Goldman Sachs, Google, and Canonical.
The company – which was founded two years ago in October 2021 – plans to use the new funding to support growth by expanding the global go-to-market team, investing in product research and innovation, and expanding customer support services.
KEY QUOTES:
“The future is clear – if you adopt open source software you are responsible for securing it. Chainguard is on a mission to be the safe source for open source that every organization building software today can rely on to build right, build safe and build fast. Open source adoption across the industry has grown dramatically over the last several years, but the gap in doing so securely is widening. Enterprises and governments are struggling to remain compliant and secure while the pace of software development is increasing.”
— Dan Lorenc, CEO and Co-founder of Chainguard
“Enterprises do not want another software security tool, they want secure software. Chainguard has fundamentally re-imagined open source security by not just alerting customers of possible vulnerabilities, but also proactively fixing them, giving developer and security teams peace of mind and time back to do what they do best – build. There is nothing like Chainguard in the market today and we could not be more excited to support them on their important mission to be the safe source for open source software.”
— Clay Fisher, General Partner at Spark Capital
“Snowflake is on a mission to help organizations scale their cloud businesses securely. Adoption of Chainguard Images has transformed the way our team builds securely with open source software across the organization and has helped to streamline and strengthen our FedRAMP certifications by providing fast open source vulnerability remediation.”
— Brandon Sterne, Senior Manager, Product Security at Snowflake
