US cybersecurity firm Chainguard has opened a regional headquarters in London and pledged to invest $200 million across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Chainguard aims to help organisations prevent AI software supply chain attacks. It says it is adding 200 new roles across engineering, sales and customer service in the region.
The company says open source software now comprises over 90% of the code in modern applications – and almost none of it is written by the organisation shipping it. Those inherited dependencies carry vulnerabilities, many of which have sat dormant for years.
Frontier AI models like Claude Mythos and GPT-6 Astra can now surface those vulnerabilities and chain low- and medium-severity flaws that teams routinely deprioritise into working exploits in a matter of hours. Traditional approaches to patching cannot keep up, and the only defence that scales is prevention.
“Pulling open source straight from public registries is like picking a USB stick up off the pavement and plugging it into your laptop,” said Ian Burley (pictured), group vice president, EMEA, Chainguard.
“Maybe you could survive that when finding a flaw took a human engineer months, but you can’t now that a model does it in an afternoon.
“Some of the best engineering and security teams we work with are in EMEA, and they know prevention is the only option. We’re putting $200m, a London office, and 200 new roles behind them, so more organisations across EMEA can put an end to AI supply chain attacks.”
Chainguard has experienced growth in EMEA since first establishing a presence in the region in October 2023. In the past 12 months alone, it saw 400%+ year-on-year ARR growth there and expanded its customer base by 800%.
The firm now serves more than 800 customers globally. Chainguard’s new London office is located at 3 Herbal Hill, Clerkenwell.
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