Harness Inc

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Harness Inc.
Private
FoundedOctober 2017; 9 years ago (2017-10) in San Francisco, CA, USA
Founder
  • Jyoti Bansal
  • Rishi Singh
ProductsHarness AI
Number of employees
1200[1] (2025)
Websiteharness.io

Harness Inc. is a San Francisco-based software company with a research and development presence in Bengaluru that develops tools for application development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery (CI/CD) for engineering and DevOps teams.[2] It also does security testing orchestration and supply chain security, and related tools for cloud cost management.[3] Its platform is designed to support software release and deployment workflows in cloud and container-based environments.[4]

History

Harness was launched in 2017 by Jyoti Bansal and Rishi Singh.[2] The company was spun out of BIG Labs, a startup studio founded by Bansal, which also participated in its early funding and contributed $5 million to its Series A round.[5] Harness was publicly unveiled in October 2017 as a platform that applied machine learning to automate aspects of continuous delivery and support automated verification and rollback processes.[6][7]

The company launched its service delivery platform (known at the time as a continuous app delivery platform) in 2018.[2] In 2019, Harness announced partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform and made its offering available through their respective marketplaces.[2] That year it also joined the Continuous Delivery Foundation, a Linux Foundation project formed in March 2019.[8]

In April 2019, Harness announced a $60 million funding round led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Google Ventures (GV), and ServiceNow Ventures, with participation from Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures.[9]

In 2021, Harness announced an $85 million funding round led by Alkeon Capital, with participation from several new and existing investors.[10] Around the same period, the company disclosed a previously unannounced $30 million Series B-1 round led by Menlo Ventures, IVP, and Unusual Ventures.[11] Harness stated that it would use these funds to expand its product roadmap and global presence.[12]

In April 2022, Harness announced $230 million in financing at a reported $3.7 billion valuation, including both equity and debt.[13]

In January 2024, Harness announced the acquisition of Armory Inc.[14] In May 2024, the company disclosed a $150 million round of debt financing led by Silicon Valley Bank (a division of First Citizens Bank) with participation from Hercules Capital.[14] In June 2024, Harness announced the acquisition of Split Software, a feature management and experimentation company.[15]

In December 2025, the company raised $240 million in a Series E funding round at a post-money valuation of $5.5 billion.[16] The round comprised a $200 million primary investment led by Goldman Sachs and a planned $40 million tender offer involving IVP, Menlo Ventures, and Unusual Ventures, intended to provide liquidity to long-term employees.[16] The valuation represented an increase from $3.7 billion in a $230 million financing announced in April 2022, bringing the company’s total equity funding to $570 million.[16]

Harness has expanded through acquisitions, including Drone.io (2020) and ChaosNative (2022), the developer of the open-source chaos engineering project LitmusChaos.[17] The company integrated chaos engineering and reliability-related capabilities into its broader software delivery platform.[18][19]

In 2025, Bansal’s application security company Traceable merged with Harness.[20] The combined company would operate as a unified platform spanning software delivery and security tooling.[21]

Business Model

Harness offers both free and paid plans. The company’s published pricing has included a free tier with limits on users, pipelines, and service instances, and a paid tier with usage-based pricing tied to applications and infrastructure units.[4]

Products and technology

Harness’s core offerings focus on CI/CD, release orchestration, and related workflows.[11] The platform supports pipeline creation and deployment across containerized and non-containerized applications and integrates with third-party observability and infrastructure tools.[4] The company has also introduced modules for cloud cost management, internal developer portals, application testing, and application security features.[13]

On June 21, 2023, Harness Inc. announced an AI-based assistant called AIDA (AI Development Assistant) for use across the software development life cycle.[22] The product was rebranded as Harness AI in August 2025.[20] The company describes the system as combining a knowledge graph, workflow orchestration, and specialized agents for tasks in DevOps, site reliability engineering, security, and testing.[20] In September 2025, Harness announced additional agentic workflows and automation features across release orchestration, internal developer portals, and FinOps, along with autonomous code maintenance capabilities.[20]

Harness has reported enterprise adoption across sectors, including financial services, retail, and technology.[12] The company and some customers have reported reductions in deployment times and deployment-related errors following adoption of the platform. These performance figures have been presented in company statements and case studies.[23]

References

  1. ↑ "Harness Announces $240M Financing Round Led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives to Advance "AI for Everything After Code"". Harness. Dec 11, 2025.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Robuck, Mike (Apr 23, 2019). "Harness raises $60M to automate continuous delivery". Fierce Network. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
  3. ↑ "About Us". Harness. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Wiggers, Kyle (Apr 23, 2019). "Harness raises $60 million to automate continuous app delivery with machine learning". Venture Beat. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
  5. ↑ Longwell, Ali (Oct 24, 2017). "Former AppDynamics Founder Launches Harness to Do Continuous Delivery". sdx central. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
  6. ↑ Hall, Susan (Feb 28, 2018). "Harness.io: For Moving Fast and Not Breaking Things". The New Stack. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
  7. ↑ Konrad, Alex (Oct 24, 2017). "After $3.7B Exit, AppDynamics' Founder Launches A Startup Studio With $20M For Its First Company". Forbes. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
  8. ↑ Longwell, Ali (Apr 23, 2019). "Harness Raises $60 Million to Disrupt, Boost Continuous Delivery Market". sdx central. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
  9. ↑ Miller, Ron (Apr 23, 2019). "Harness hauls in $60M Series B investment on $500M valuation". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
  10. ↑ Miller, Ron (Jan 14, 2021). "Jan 14, 2021". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Porr, Jeremy (Jan 15, 2021). "Harness Raises $115M at $1.7B Valuation to Support Global Expansion". Built in San Francisco. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Taneja, Kajol (Jan 15, 2021). "Harness Raises USD 115M In New Financing , Attains Unicorn Status With USD 1.7 Billion Valuation". BWDisrupt. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Deutscher, Maria (Apr 26, 2022). "Harness raises $230M at $3.7B valuation to help developers build software faster". SiliconAngle. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Wheatley, Mike (May 14, 2024). "CI/CD platform startup Harness raises $150M to accelerate software delivery". SiliconAngle. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
  15. ↑ Ballard, Will (June 18, 2024). "Harness Acquires Split & Authorizes New Junior Preferred Round". Prime Unicorn Index. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Singh, Jagmeet (Dec 11, 2025). "Harness hits $5.5B valuation with $240M raise to automate AI's 'after-code' gap". TechCrunch.
  17. ↑ Miller, Ron (Mar 22, 2022). "Harness moves into chaos engineering with ChaosNative acquisition". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
  18. ↑ "Harness Acquires ChaosNative". DevOps Digest. Mar 22, 2022. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
  19. ↑ Vizard, Mike (Mar 23, 2022). "Harness Acquires ChaosNative to Meld Chaos Engineering, DevOps". DevOps.com Newsletter. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 Pariseau, Beth (Sep 18, 2025). "Harness takes aim at AI 'bottleneck' with DevSecOps agents". TechTarget. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
  21. ↑ Novet, Jordan (Feb 10, 2025). "Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger". CNBC. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
  22. ↑ "Harness Empowers Developers with Generative AI Assistant for the Software Development Life Cycle: Announces the Launch of AIDA™". PR Newswire. Jun 23, 2023. Retrieved 2026-01-21.
  23. ↑ Deutscher, Maria (Jan 14, 2021). "Harness becomes $1.7B unicorn after raising $85M for its software delivery platform". SiliconAngle. Retrieved 2026-01-21.

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