Codenotary Inc. just raised $16.5M in a Series C, timing that feels deliberate. With software supply chain attacks behind nearly 30% of breaches, a company named Codenotary tightening the chain of custody around digital truth feels like logic finally winning a round. This raise signals a market waking up to the fact that trust is no longer philosophical. Trust is infrastructure. Trust is throughput. Trust is survival at DevOps velocity.
The momentum traces straight back to founders Moshe Bar and Dennis Zimmer, operators defined by precision, grit, and zero wasted motion. Moshe Bar has been shaping the backbone of modern computing since XenSource and Qumranet, carving pathways through Red Hat and Deutsche Telekom’s investment arm with the confidence of someone who has seen several cycles and never once panicked. Dennis Zimmer, based in Switzerland, brings 20+ years of technical depth, 16 straight VMware vExpert honors, and the imprint of Opvizor, which merged into the company in 2020. Together they turned vChain Inc., founded in late 2018, into a global engine powering hundreds of institutions, from major banks to defense orgs, all managing everything from billions of CI/CD artifacts to the regulatory labyrinths of financial and government compliance.
The product lineup reads like a manifesto for integrity at scale. Trustcenter delivers automated provenance, compliance, and a 100% renewal rate that quietly says everything. Guardian locks down runtime environments with real-time vigilance. Codenotary Cloud hunts unwanted artifacts across pipelines with the instincts of a veteran detective. immudb, with 27M Docker pulls and 12M+ downloads, offers blockchain style immutability without the blockchain baggage. SBOM.sh now safeguards 100K+ unique projects. When regulators across NIST, CIS, PCI, FIPS, DORA, and the EU CRA are turning the screws tighter each year, Codenotary Inc. is becoming the reference point for what trustworthy actually means.
This round fuels expansion into the UK and Asia, scaling engineering, AI research, sales, and customer success. With profitability since 2023 and 140% sales growth in early 2024, this is not a company catching a wave. It is a company building the tide. Investors like Elaia Partners, Bluwat AG with Pascal Blum, Arrize xTec represented by David Chen, and Acequia Capital have backed the journey at every major turn, and the consistency of that support says something powerful about the foundation Moshe Bar and Dennis Zimmer built.
For teams in finance, defense, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, the message is simple. Your software supply chain is no longer a backstage operation. It is the bloodstream of your enterprise. Codenotary Inc. is giving that bloodstream verifiable truth, immutable history, and AI driven certainty at speeds that match the stakes. The future does not belong to whoever ships fastest. It belongs to whoever ships with proof.
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