With AI-built clean images and a growing global presence, Bengaluru-based cybersecurity startup CleanStart aims to secure the software supply chain before threats ever reach production.

The reliability of modern business rests on a digital infrastructure that few organisations build alone. Most depend on open-source libraries, vendor images, and shared components that often carry a long history of flaws.

A kitchen-sink approach to building containers has loaded many with vulnerabilities. A handful of companies are trying to slim them down.