Chainguard expands into India’s booming AI ecosystem, partnering with major system integrators to secure the software supply chain across more than 1,700 Global Capability Centres.
Chainguard, on June 18, 2026, outlined its India strategy, marking a significant milestone in the company’s global expansion. With a partner-led strategy built around India’s largest system integrators and an active customer base spanning global enterprises including OpenAI, Canva, and Cloudera, alongside Indian-native companies such as Slice Bank, Amagi, and Fyno, Chainguard is investing to be at the centre of India’s AI-driven technology future.
The open source company’s global expansion is supported by USD 892 million raised to date. This includes a USD 356 million Series D led by Kleiner Perkins and IVP in April 2025, alongside USD 280 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund in October 2025. Following these rounds, the company is currently valued at USD 3.5 billion.
Chainguard is implementing this strategy to insert its open-source tooling into developer workflows and AI-native engineering environments across India. Crucially, Chainguard identifies India’s 1,700+ Global Capability Centres (GCCs), which collectively employ over 1.9 million people, as a critical market opportunity.
The company is actively partnering with India’s largest tech integrators, including TCS, Infosys, HCLTech, Persistent, and LTIMindtree. Additionally, Chainguard’s ecosystem is deeply integrated with hyper-scalers including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Chainguard’s deepened focus on India builds on the launch of Athena, an industry coalition designed specifically to protect open-source software in the frontier-model era. Athena contains more than two dozen member organisations, having already processed over 20,000 security findings and deployed 2,000+ patches across 500 open-source projects.
Chainguard’s CEO and co-founder, Dan Lorenc, noted that the software threat landscape has shifted aggressively: “The time to exploit has gone negative – exploits now land before a flaw is ever disclosed.” Athena’s explicit purpose is to implement automated, pre-disclosure remediation so fixes are pushed upstream before a vulnerability becomes public.
