Harness
Funding History
| Series C (with Series B-1 tranche) · 01/2021 | $1.7B |
|---|---|
| Series D · 04/2022 | $3.7B |
| Series E · 12/2025 | $5.5B |
About
Harness is a software delivery platform founded in 2017 by Jyoti Bansal, who previously founded and sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion, and Rishi Singh, a former Apple DevOps platform architect. The company's platform covers CI/CD pipelines, feature-flag management, cloud cost optimization, and software supply-chain security, and is now marketed as an AI-native platform for automating the delivery steps that follow code being written.
- CEO
- Jyoti Bansal
- Employees
- 1,200+
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Founded
- 2017
- Website
- harness.io
Overview
Harness is a San Francisco-based software delivery platform founded in 2017 by Jyoti Bansal, who previously founded and sold application-intelligence company AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion, and Rishi Singh, a former DevOps platform architect at Apple. The company began as a continuous-delivery automation tool and has expanded into a broader platform covering CI/CD, feature flags, cloud cost management, and software supply-chain security, now marketed as an AI-native platform for automating the steps that come after code is written.
Harness has raised more than $500 million in disclosed venture financing across five rounds since 2017, most recently a $240 million Series E transaction in December 2025 led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, comprising a $200 million primary investment plus a $40 million secondary tender offer for existing employees and holders, that valued the company at $5.5 billion post-money. As of the round announcement, Harness was on track to exceed $250 million in annualized revenue in 2025, growing more than 50% year over year, with more than 1,000 enterprise customers and over 1,200 employees.
CEO Jyoti Bansal has said Harness will eventually go public but has not committed to a timeline; as of September 2026 the company remains privately held with no S-1 filed.
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