Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian Brauner (CTO) and Lennart Poettering (Chief Engineer) will be focused on delivering determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems.
Do you mean GNU Shepherd? The same init system that only got to 1.0 last year? Systems has been carrying Linux for years at this point.