The founding team of five open-source veterans are Dan Lorenc, Matt Moore, Scott Nichols, Ville Aikas, and Kim Lewandowski. The team worked together at Google on many of the foundational container projects, including: Minikube, Distroless, Skaffold, Knative, Tekton, Kaniko, ko, and most recently the open source security projects Sigstore and SLSA. The team believes that the solution to securing software supply chains must be rooted in open source, standards, and communities as the software that companies ship is increasingly dominated by the open source libraries, frameworks, and runtimes they consume.
Location: United States, Oregon
Total raised: $116M
Founders name: Dan Lorenc; Matthew Moore; Kim Lewandowski; Ville Aikas
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| 09.12.2021 | Amplify Pa... | amplifypar... |
| - | MANTIS Ven... | mantisvc.c... |
| - | LiveOak | liveoak.vc |
| - | K5 Global | k5global.c... |
| - | Spark Capi... | sparkcapit... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 02.11.2023 | Series B | $61M | - |
| 02.06.2022 | Series A | $50M | - |
| 08.12.2021 | Seed | $5M | Amplify Pa... |
Persons 8
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Matthew | Moore | Founder / ... | linkedin.c... | - | m****e@cha... | - |
| - | Scott | Nichols | - | linkedin.c... | - | s***t@chai... | - |
| - | Kim | Lewandowsk... | Founder / ... | linkedin.c... | - | k*m@chaing... | - |
| - | Kaylin | Trychon | Vice Presi... | linkedin.c... | - | k****n@cha... | - |
| - | Emily | Long | Chief Oper... | linkedin.c... | - | E***y@chai... | - |
| - | Michelle | See | Head of Ma... | linkedin.c... | - | m******e@c... | - |
| - | Ville | Aikas | Founder | linkedin.c... | - | v****s@cha... | - |
| - | Dan | Lorenc | Founder/CE... | linkedin.c... | - | d*****c@ch... | - |
Mentions in press and media 26
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 02.04.2024 | Second Front Systems Announces Partnership with Chainguard | Partnership further streamlines compliance pipelines with a registry of secure container images WILM... | salamancap... |
| 08.11.2023 | Who's responsible for securing the software supply chain? | A new poll of over 500 security decision makers and developers shows a disconnect and even some dist... | betanews.c... |
| 02.11.2023 | USA-based Chainguard raises USD 61 million in Series B | Kirkland, USA-based Chainguard, the leader in software supply chain security, today completed a USD ... | vcbay.news... |
| 01.11.2023 | Chainguard Raises $61M in Series B Funding | Chainguard, a Kirkland, WA-based software supply chain security company, raised $61M in Series B fun... | finsmes.co... |
| 01.11.2023 | Chainguard, an Open-Source Security Firm, Raises $61 Million | - | wsj.com/ar... |
| 01.11.2023 | Seattle-area startup Chainguard raises $61M to help companie... | Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc. (Chainguard Photo) Chainguard, a Kirkland, Wash.-based cybersecurity star... | geekwire.c... |
| 01.11.2023 | Chainguard raises $61M for its ultra-secure software contain... | Chainguard Inc., a startup that provides highly secure versions of open-source software tools, today... | siliconang... |
| 01.11.2023 | Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round | KIRKLAND, WA, Chainguard Raises $61 Million Series B Round led by Spark Capital. >> Click h... | vcnewsdail... |
| 23.12.2022 | Protecting your organization from rising software supply cha... | Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Attackers find it ha... | venturebea... |
| 29.11.2022 | Software supply chain security is broader than SolarWinds an... | Dan Lorenc Contributor Share on Twitter Dan Lorenc is CEO and co-founder of Chainguard. Previously h... | techcrunch... |
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