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Echo sells CVE-free container base images, OS packages, libraries, and Helm charts that teams adopt by changing one line in a Dockerfile, with critical fixes committed within seven days. Eilon Elhadad and Eylam Milner, who sold their previous supply-chain company Argon to Aqua Security, founded Echo in early 2025 and raised $50 million within ten months, and Varonis, EDB, and UiPath run its artifacts in production. A team of 35 maintains more than 600 images, the press reports, because AI agents research each new vulnerability, rebuild the affected artifacts, and test the fixes. Adoption is a one-line swap, and exit appears technically simple because artifacts are drop-in, though compliance evidence and renewed patch toil may create friction, and Chainguard sells into the same budget.
| Description | Supplies CVE-free container base images, OS packages, open-source libraries, and Helm charts, rebuilt from source and maintained by AI agents under a patch SLA as drop-in replacements for standard artifacts. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 | [f2] |
| HQ | New York and Tel Aviv | [f2] |
| Funding | $50M total | [f3] |
| Latest funding | Series A, $35M (December 2025) | [f4] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Echo | Catalog of secure-by-design software artifacts spanning container images, OS packages, libraries, Helm charts, VMs, and serverless, with FIPS-validated and STIG-hardened variants. |
Cyber Defense Matrix
| Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware. | |||||
| Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices. | |||||
| Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths. | |||||
| Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks. | |||||
| Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data. |
Hardened, CVE-free base images, OS packages, and libraries replace vulnerable upstream components across container workloads and application dependencies. The company is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f1]
How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.
| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. | 3/5 |
| Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. | 4/5 |
| Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. | 4/5 |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 4/5 |
| Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. | 3/5 |
| Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. | 4/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 3/5 |
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press the advantage
| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. | 2/3 |
| Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. | 2/3 |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 2/3 |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 3/3 |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 3/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 1/3 |
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| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | Echo homepage | official | 2026-06-11 |
| f2 | Former Argon founders launch Echo with $15M to tackle open source risk | press | 2026-06-11 |
| f3 | Echo Raises $35 Million in Series A Funding | press | 2026-06-11 |
| f4 | Vulnerability-free container image startup Echo Software raises $35M | press | 2026-06-11 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Echo homepage “Eliminate both OS and language-level vulnerabilities without sacrificing functionality.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s2 | Echo about page “Rather than finding and fixing vulnerabilities in production, we eliminate them at the source – ensuring a software supply chain that's secure by default.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s3 | Echo pricing page “Which cloud marketplaces does Echo support? We support all of the popular marketplaces, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s4 | Echo container images product page “Critical and high CVEs are triaged within 24 hours and fixed in up to 7 days.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s5 | Echo libraries product page “By monitoring the health of the upstream project and maintainer, Echo detects and quarantines any drift in the author, behavior, and release cadence.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s6 | Echo OS packages product page | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s7 | Echo integrations page “aws Marketplace Available for consumption · Azure Marketplace Available for consumption” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s8 | Echo customers page | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s9 | Varonis case study “We reached our FedRAMP deadlines with everything remediated.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s10 | Port case study “Without those mid-sprint interruptions and time-draining remediation cycles across 100+ integrations, Port has saved thousands of developer and security hours each year, translating into $3.2M saved annually.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s11 | Echo trust center “Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2 · ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · FIPS 140-3” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s12 | Echo FedRAMP use case “FIPS 140-3 Validated” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s13 | Echo partners page | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s14 | Echo blog index “Echo vs. Chainguard: Choosing the right vendor” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s15 | Echo seed funding press release “NEW YORK, July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Echo, an innovative startup building enterprise-grade software infrastructure, has raised $15 million in Seed funding.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s16 | SecurityWeek on the Echo seed round “The funding round was led by Notable Capital and Hyperwise Ventures, with participation from SVCI.” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s17 | SiliconANGLE on the Echo seed round “Echo uses what it calls an AI-driven image factory, a feature that analyzes existing container images, determines the essential components and rebuilds them from scratch without unnecessary or vulnerable packages.” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s18 | Calcalist on the Echo launch and seed round “The duo previously co-founded Argon in 2020, which was acquired within a year by Aqua Security for $100 million.” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s19 | SiliconANGLE on the Echo Series A “Echo co-founder and Chief Executive Eilon Elhadad (left) said this AI-first approach enables the company to maintain a library of more than 600 secure container images, despite only having a team of 35.” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s20 | SecurityWeek on the Echo Series A “Echo today announced raising $35 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $50 million.” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s21 | Ynetnews on the Echo Series A “Echo is already securing production workloads for enterprise customers, like Varonis, EDB, and UiPath, with its AI-powered approach to eliminating container vulnerabilities at the source.” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s22 | VentureBeat on the Echo Series A “Crucially, the build pipeline adheres to SLSA Level 3 standards (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts), ensuring that every artifact is signed, tested, and verifiable.” | press | 2026-07-01 |
| s23 | Echo EU CRA use case “CRA ready for September 11, 2026” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s24 | Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 of 23 October 2024 (Cyber Resilience Act) on EUR-Lex “This Regulation shall apply from 11 December 2027. However, Article 14 shall apply from 11 September 2026” | regulatory | 2026-06-12 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Echo homepage “Eliminate both OS and language-level vulnerabilities without sacrificing functionality.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s2 | Echo about page “Rather than finding and fixing vulnerabilities in production, we eliminate them at the source – ensuring a software supply chain that's secure by default.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s3 | Echo pricing page “Get access to all of our secure artifacts, paying based on the size of your engineering organization.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s4 | Echo container images product page “Critical and high CVEs are triaged within 24 hours and fixed in up to 7 days.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s5 | Echo libraries product page “By monitoring the health of the upstream project and maintainer, Echo detects and quarantines any drift in the author, behavior, and release cadence.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s6 | Echo OS packages product page | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s7 | Echo integrations page “Marketplace aws Marketplace Available for consumption Marketplace Azure Marketplace Available for consumption” | official | 2026-06-15 |
| s8 | Echo customers page | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s9 | Varonis case study “We reached our FedRAMP deadlines with everything remediated.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s10 | Port case study “Without those mid-sprint interruptions and time-draining remediation cycles across 100+ integrations, Port has saved thousands of developer and security hours each year, translating into $3.2M saved annually.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s11 | Echo trust center “Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2 · ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · FIPS 140-3” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s12 | Echo FedRAMP use case “FIPS 140-3 Validated” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s13 | Echo partners page | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s14 | Echo blog index “Echo vs. Chainguard: Choosing the right vendor” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s15 | Echo seed funding press release “NEW YORK, July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Echo, an innovative startup building enterprise-grade software infrastructure, has raised $15 million in Seed funding.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s16 | SecurityWeek on the Echo seed round “The funding round was led by Notable Capital and Hyperwise Ventures, with participation from SVCI.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s17 | SiliconANGLE on the Echo seed round “Echo uses what it calls an AI-driven image factory, a feature that analyzes existing container images, determines the essential components and rebuilds them from scratch without unnecessary or vulnerable packages.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s18 | Calcalist on the Echo launch and seed round “Echo was founded in early 2025 by Eilon Elhadad (CEO) and Eylam Milner (CTO), both alumni of Unit 8200 and the Ofek unit, with over a decade of experience in cybersecurity. The duo previously co-founded Argon in 2020, which was acquired within a year by Aqua Security for $100 million.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s19 | SiliconANGLE on the Echo Series A “Echo co-founder and Chief Executive Eilon Elhadad (left) said this AI-first approach enables the company to maintain a library of more than 600 secure container images, despite only having a team of 35.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s20 | SecurityWeek on the Echo Series A “Echo today announced raising $35 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $50 million.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s21 | Ynetnews on the Echo Series A “"Echo saves at least 235 developer hours per release and has helped cut critical vulnerabilities," said Dan Garcia, CISO of EDB.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s22 | VentureBeat on the Echo Series A “Crucially, the build pipeline adheres to SLSA Level 3 standards (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts), ensuring that every artifact is signed, tested, and verifiable.” | press | 2026-07-01 |
| s23 | Ynetnews on the Echo customers naming UiPath in production “Echo is already securing production workloads for enterprise customers, like Varonis, EDB, and UiPath, with its AI-powered approach to eliminating container vulnerabilities at the source.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
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