Chainguard raises $280 million from General Catalyst to expand its trusted open source software platform.
Chainguard Inc. has raised $280 million in new growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF) to meet the rising demand for secure open source software and accelerate its mission to make open source trustworthy by default.
Founded in 2021, the company is redefining software supply chain security by embedding trust and verification into open-source development. Chainguard’s core offerings include secure, minimal container images, language libraries, and virtual machine formats verified for security and curated to have zero or minimal known vulnerabilities. Its catalogue of more than 1700 container images covers a wide range of modern stacks and is distributed through Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. These integrate seamlessly into developer workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise deployment systems, enabling safe and scalable open source adoption.
“Open source powers the world, but the way it’s delivered and deployed often introduces risk,” said Dan Lorenc, Co-founder and Chief Executive of Chainguard. “At Chainguard, we’re flipping that script: We guard open source from all the things that can go wrong with it, so engineering teams can build anything they want with it.” Pranav Singhvi, Managing Director and Co-head of CVF at General Catalyst, added, “Chainguard is defining a new category at the heart of modern infrastructure: trusted open source software.”
The new investment brings Chainguard’s total funding to approximately $892 million. The company plans to enhance its financial profile, scale go-to-market operations, and capture growing market opportunities as trusted open source becomes mission-critical infrastructure for enterprises.
