Harness, Inc.
Enable the world's 37 million software developers to deliver code quickly, reliably, efficiently, and securely through an AI-powered software delivery platform.
Founding Story
Harness was founded in 2017, nine months after Jyoti Bansal sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion. The idea emerged when AppDynamics customers frequently cited the process of delivering rapid software changes as a major unresolved problem. Harness launched from stealth as the first company spun out of BIG Labs startup studio to make continuous delivery accessible to every business.
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Leadership
Founders
Jyoti Bansal
Serial entrepreneur and founder/CEO of AppDynamics (sold to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017). Co-founded Harness in 2017 and also co-founded Traceable in 2018 and the venture capital firm Unusual Ventures.
Rishi Singh
Former DevOps platform architect at Apple. Served as founding CTO of Harness for its first five years. Graduate of IIT Delhi.
Executive Team
Jyoti Bansal
Co-Founder & CEO
Serial entrepreneur who co-founded Harness in 2017. Previously founded AppDynamics (sold to Cisco for $3.7 billion). Also co-founded Traceable in 2018 and Unusual Ventures.
Carlos Delatorre
Chief Revenue Officer
Oversees sales and go-to-market functions. Previously head of sales at Navan and MongoDB. Board member at Yalo and investor/advisor to companies including Modern Treasury and Starburst. MBA from Troy State University.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based SaaS model with API usage-based pricing. Platform delivered as a service with modules for CI/CD, security, testing, cost management, and more.
Target Markets
- Enterprise software development teams
- DevOps teams
- SRE teams
- AppSec teams
- FinOps teams
- Banking and Financial Services
- Accelerating developer onboarding from months to hours
- Modernizing end-to-end tests
- Testing application resilience against real-world failure scenarios
- Shifting left by orchestrating security scans in CI/CD pipelines
- Preventing sensitive data disclosure
- Optimizing cloud spend and engineering effectiveness
- United Airlines
- Morningstar
- Keller Williams
- National Australia Bank
History & Milestones
Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025
Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms for second consecutive year
Acquired Qwiet AI (application security)
Named to Fast Company's 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators for second year in a row
Merged with Traceable (API security)
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