Software Engineering Daily · Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Matt Moore explained that ChainGuard was founded after the SolarWinds attack, which significantly increased market awareness and demand for software supply chain security. He and his co-founders, who had prior experience at Google, recognized the opportunity to address this critical need.
“But at that time, SolarWinds had just happened, and overnight everyone cared.”
“So the time was right, and we'd spent a lot of time studying this space. And so it felt like right team, right time, and we decided to go for it, and it's been a pretty wild ride ever since.”