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Chainguard, the software supply-chain security company, has now raised ~$892M total at a $3.5B valuation — a $356M Series D (4/25) followed by a $280M growth round (10/25) — backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, IVP, and General Catalyst. ARR hit $40M with projections to top $100M by end of FY26, and Gartner named it a 2026 Magic Quadrant Leader.

  1. Kim Lewandowski in SF (Stealth)

    1. e: Co-Founder & CPO @ Chainguard (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Product Manager @ Google, Founder @ Spotwag (acq by Rover), SWE @ SimpleGeo, Head of Product & Eng @ Brit + Co

    3. Description: Stealth dev-tools venture since 6/26 - likely with Brad & Wojciech

    4. Contact: Twitter

  2. Brad Bock in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Director of Product Management @ Chainguard (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Group Product Manager @ VMware, Senior Product Marketing Manager @ AWS, Co-Founder & CEO @ ExitZero, Business Development @ Bitnami, Intelligence Supervisor @ US Navy

    3. Description: Stealth infra venture since 6/26 - likely with Kim & Wojciech

  3. Wojciech Kocjan in Cracow (Stealth)

    1. Role: Staff SWE @ Chainguard (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Cloud Native Consultant @ FikaWorks, Senior SRE @ Shell, Platform Engineer @ InfluxData, Staff Engineer @ VMware

    3. Description: Stealth dev-tools venture since 6/26 - likely with Kim & Brad

  4. Lisa Tagliaferri in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Foundational Hire & Senior Director, Developer Enablement @ Chainguard (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director of Developer Education @ Sourcegraph, Senior Manager, Community @ DigitalOcean, Researcher @ Harvard, Researcher @ MIT, CUNY PhD

    3. Description: "Building AI tooling"

    4. Contact: Site

  5. Charlie Robbins in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Principal Engineer @ Chainguard (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Nodejitsu (acq by GoDaddy), Senior Director of Engineering @ GoDaddy, VP Engineering @ Candy Digital, Partner @ Techquity, Columbia MS HCI

    3. Description: Left Chainguard 5/26

    4. Contact: Site

  6. Philippe Deslauriers in Seattle (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineering Leadership @ Chainguard (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Software Engineering Manager @ Google

    3. Description: Left Chainguard 2/26

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