The{RUNTIME}truth for modern softwareThe{RUNTIME}truth for modern software
> Who We Are
A tribe of builders, hackers, and OSS maintainers united by a single question: What if we could know what code actually does when it runs?
Our team brings deep experience building developer tooling and foundational observability infrastructure. We include leads and maintainers of tools like Tracee, Tetragon, Fluent Bit, systemd, and nmap, with roots at Red Hat, Canonical, Chronosphere, IBM, and Isovalent.
> We've Faced The Pain Ourselves
Garnet was born from hard lessons. At their previous AI infrastructure startup, Umar and Farrukh faced every founder's nightmare: a cryptominer infiltrated production through a compromised Python dependency—running undetected for weeks in a customer's environment.
While we had static and vulnerability scanners, we were running blind to what was actually running. With an early glimpse of what the future of supply chain attacks would look like, one thing became clear: you can't trust code if you can't see it at runtime. This became the spark for Garnet.
> Why We're Here
We're building the trust layer for modern software —with a vision to combine best-in-class infrastructure, intelligence, and a lovable developer experience—so teams at the frontier have the visibility and control to ship with confidence.
Backed by the Best
Shardul ShahPartner at Index
Kevin MahaffeyFounder & CTO at Lookout
Olivier PomelCEO at Datadog
Ross MasonFounder at MuleSoft
Matt KraningCTO at Cortex (acq. by PANW)
Jack AltmanCEO at Lattice
Max AltmanAlt Capital, Sage
Zane LackeyFounder at Signal Sciences
Dan WrightCofounder and CEO at Armada
Antti KarajalainenCofounder at Robocorp (Sema4.ai)
Abe OthmanCTO & Cofounder at Clipper
Reed McGinley-StempleCEO & Cofounder at Stytch
Liu JiangInvestor at Sunflower, Sequoia
Slavik MarkovichCofounder at Descope,Demisto (PANW)
Rishi BhargavaCofounder at Descope,Demisto (PANW)
Isaac SchlueterFormer CEO of npm. Founder of Volt.sh
Francesco AgostiCTO / Cofounder at Phantom
Austin FederaHead of Strategy at Solana Foundation
David RosenthalCo-host, Acquired
Jan OberhauserFounder & CEO at n8n
Mahmoud AbdelkaderCEO/cofounder at VGS
Packy McCormickFounder, Not Boring
Sean WhitneyInvestor at Craft, prev Figma
Soona AmhazFounder at Volt Capital
Yang SuCEO/founder at Seen Health
Ian RountreeManaging Partner, Cantos
Brian ValenlungaCEO and co-founder of Doppler
Nataniel ManningGeneral Partner at Kindergarten Ventures