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Securing the software supply chain by default
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The SolarWinds Problem, Solved
Remember the SolarWinds hack? The Log4j vulnerability? These attacks exploited a fundamental weakness in modern software: the supply chain. Chainguard was founded specifically to fix this.
Co-founded by Dan Lorenc, Matt Moore, Scott Nichols, Ville Aikas, and Kim Lewandowski — the team behind Google's Sigstore and SLSA security frameworks — Chainguard provides hardened, verifiable, production-ready builds of the open-source components that developers and AI systems depend on.
Factory 2.0 and AI Agent Security
In 2026, Chainguard unveiled Factory 2.0, a next-generation platform that replaces traditional build automation with agentic reconciliation bots for continuous security hardening. They also launched Chainguard Agent Skills — a catalog of continuously hardened, third-party AI agent skills that let developers securely plug capabilities into AI agents. As AI agents become more autonomous, ensuring the security of their tool integrations becomes critical, and Chainguard is positioning itself as the trust layer.
About Dan Lorenc
Dan Lorenc is the co-founder of Chainguard, one of the team members behind Google's Sigstore and SLSA security frameworks. He co-founded the company alongside Matt Moore, Scott Nichols, Ville Aikas, and Kim Lewandowski — all former Google security engineers — to fix the fundamental weaknesses in the software supply chain exposed by attacks like SolarWinds and Log4j.
Lorenc and his co-founders built Chainguard to provide hardened, verifiable, production-ready builds of the open-source components that developers and AI systems depend on. Their approach treats supply chain security as a default rather than an afterthought, delivering continuously verified software for containers, VMs, and AI agent integrations.
Under Lorenc's leadership, Chainguard has raised $612M across six funding rounds, reaching a $3.5B valuation and growing to over 660 employees. In 2026, the company launched Factory 2.0 and Chainguard Agent Skills, positioning itself as the trust layer for the emerging agentic AI ecosystem.
Sources: Public press releases, SEC and state business filings, published interviews, news coverage, and company disclosures.
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