# RapidFort

> RapidFort is a Sunnyvale-based software supply chain security company that automatically hardens container images, strips unused components, and ships a library of curated near-zero-CVE images so engineering teams can ship secure software without rewriting it.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Sunnyvale, California, United States
- **Founders:** Mehran Farimani (CEO & Co-founder), Russ Andersson (COO & Co-founder), Rajeev Thakur (CTO & Co-founder), George Manuelian (CRO & Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~110 employees
- **Products:** RF Analyzer, RF Profiler, RF Optimizer, Curated Images, RF Cart
- **Notable:** Surpassed 1,000,000 downloads of hardened public container images, Removed 124M+ vulnerabilities and secured 82M+ packages, $42M Series A in February 2026 led by Blue Cloud Ventures and Forgepoint Capital

## Products & services

- **RF Analyzer** — Container vulnerability scanning across CI/CD pipelines, registries, and Kubernetes.
- **RF Profiler** — Runtime profiling that observes what actually executes in production.
- **RF Optimizer** — Automated attack surface reduction by removing unused components from images.
- **Curated Images** — 35,000+ near-zero-CVE hardened images built on Ubuntu, RHEL, Debian, Alpine and others.
- **RF Cart** — Compliance validation and remediation reporting for FedRAMP, STIG, CIS, SOC 2.

## Achievements

- Surpassed 1,000,000 downloads of hardened public container images
- Removed 124M+ vulnerabilities and secured 82M+ packages
- $42M Series A in February 2026 led by Blue Cloud Ventures and Forgepoint Capital
- Named Top Vulnerability Management Solutions Company by Enterprise Security Magazine (2022)

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Closed $42M Series A to expand the supply chain security platform.
- **2025** — Crossed one million downloads of public hardened images.
- **2025** — Launched free pre-hardened images on GitHub.

## Links

- Website: https://rapidfort.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapidfort
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/RapidFortInc
- GitHub: https://github.com/rapidfort
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RapidFort

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Last updated: 2026-05-23