Chainguard for Startups | Scale fast and securely
Technology
Trusted open source for high-growth startups
Accelerate revenue without compromising stability and innovation with Chainguard’s enterprise-ready open source foundation.
Chainguard supports:
High-growth companies rely on Chainguard to deliver the enterprise-grade open source supply chains large organizations demand.
- AI & ML
- SaaS
- IoT
- Cybersecurity
- FinTech
- HealthTech
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The world’s leading companies trust Chainguard
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Secure-by-default OSS built to scale with your business
Accelerate revenue
Speed through security and procurement reviews with trusted systems built on secure-by-default OSS.
Ship enterprise-grade
Differentiate with enterprise-grade open source supply chains—delivering reproducible, auditable, and verifiable build processes.
Unlock engineering velocity
Focus your teams on innovation instead of toil with the industry’s largest catalog of standardized, CVE-free, malware-resistant artifacts.
Speed through security reviews
Start with zero CVEs and stay that way with an industry-leading CVE SLA and end-to-end integrity that’s critical for compliance frameworks like SOC2.
Build on the gold standard
Build for scalability and growth from the ground up with customizable, purpose-built container images, complete with verifiable, attested SBOMs.
Malware-free dependencies
Turn off live access to public registries like PyPI or npm with Chainguard Libraries. It gives your developers a safe source to build their next project while avoiding the constant security tax of malware triage.
Learn more about Chainguard Libraries
Toil less, code more
Keep engineers on task and innovation on track with thousands of continuously updated, minimal container images and leading language libraries.
Open source language ecosystems
Avoid AI-assisted attacks with Chainguard Libraries
Python
Turn off live access to PyPI with a full catalog of safe dependencies built, curated, and remediated by Chainguard.
Learn moreJavaScript
Swap npm for Chainguard, removing your team’s fears that the next installed package contains credential harvesting malware.
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Hear from the tech companies using Chainguard
\n > "Chainguard Libraries extends Canva's security posture to prevent malware that has plagued npm and PyPI for years." \n Adam Mills, Software Engineering Manager
Canva\n > “Chainguard gives us peace of mind knowing the OS and system vulnerabilities that are out there that would be under attack are being taken care of for us.”\n Jamison Bennett, Security Engineer
Cloudera\n > "It's a remarkable thing when you introduce Chainguard [Containers] and see the vulnerability count plummet."\n Brandon Sterne, Senior Manager, Product Security
Snowflake\n > "Without Chainguard, we would've had to assemble a massive team that would have to build everything out from scratch."\n Abdullah Munawar, Director, Product Security
Appian\n > "As a CISO, I'm always looking for force multipliers. Things that give me leverage, that provide outsize value for the investment I have to put into it—and Chainguard is exactly that."\n Andrew Becherer, CISO
Sublime Security\n > “Chainguard takes the heartache away from building and maintaining images because they do all the hard work for you and just deliver you a clean product. They deliver you a clean product consistently over time as new CVEs come out as well.”\n Shaun McDonnell, Director of Platform Engineering
Shift5
Developers
& Revenue
Number of Images
We'll approximate how many images your org uses based on developer headcount and revenue.
Number of Developers
Hours to Remediate Each CVE
4 hours
Annual Revenue
Organization Maturity Level
Medium
In Millions (USD)
Hardening Hours: 300 per image
Industry Category
Technology & Software
Risk factor: 1.4x
Do your customers require FedRAMP or FIPS-certified cryptography?
Yes
Summary
Save Engineering Toil
Reduce Risk
Increase Revenue
$2,635,600
Total Business Value — ROI: 6.6x
Combined impact of cost savings, risk reduction, and revenue opportunity
$1,744,000
Save Engineering Toil
21,800 hours
$441,600
Reduce Risk
Breach & churn risk
$450,000
Increase Revenue
4.5% of revenue
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