Harness - About the company
Harness is a series E company based in San Francisco (United States), founded in 2017 by Jyoti Bansal. It operates as a Provider of platform for software delivery, security, testing, and cost optimization. Harness has raised $614M in funding from investors like ServiceNow, Goldman Sachs and IVP, with a current valuation of $5.5B. The company has 143 active competitors, including 39 funded and 19 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Vercel, JFrog and LaunchDarkly.
Company Details
Provider of platform for software delivery, security, testing, and cost optimization. The platform offers continuous integration, continuous delivery, feature flags, and cloud cost management. It also provides service reliability management, security testing orchestration, and chaos engineering. The platform includes software engineering insights, continuous error tracking, and infrastructure as code management.
- Website
- www.harness.io/
- Social
- Registered Address
- San Francisco, California
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2017
Location
San Francisco, United States
Stage
Series E
Total Funding
$614M in 14 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$5.5B as on Dec 11, 2025
Investors
Ranked
3rd among 143 active competitors
Employee Count
1,654 as on Mar 31, 2026
Legal entities associated with Harness
Harness is associated with 4 legal entities given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
HARNESSIO R&D LABS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED CIN: U72900KA2018FTC113739 , India, Active | Jun 06, 2018 | $22.4M (As on Mar 31, 2025) | - | |
HARNESS INC. CIN: 810806251 , United States, Active | Dec 31, 1999 | - | 467 (As on Dec 31, 2024) | - |
Zeronorth, Inc. CIN: 61-1765468 , United States, Active | Jul 05, 2015 | - | 22 (As on Dec 31, 2021) | - |
HARNESS GROUP UK LIMITED CIN: 11564490 , United Kingdom, Active | Sep 11, 2018 | $19.8M (As on Jan 31, 2025) | 66 (As on Jan 31, 2023) |
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Harness's funding and investors
Harness has raised a total funding of $614M over 14 rounds. Its first funding round was on Jul 24, 2017. Its latest funding round was a Series E round on Dec 11, 2025 for $200M. 4 investors participated in its latest round. Harness has 32 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Harness:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Dec 11, 2025 | $200M | Series E | $5.5B | - | ||
Oct 17, 2023 | $150M | Conventional Debt | - | - | - | |
Apr 26, 2022 | $55M | Conventional Debt | - | - | - | - |
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Harness' founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileHere are the details of Harness' key team members:
- Jyoti Bansal: Co-Founder & CEO of Harness. They are also an angel investor in 1 startup.Contact Info: 1 email address
Harness' Board of Directors
Harness's board has 16 active members. Enrico Petrillo, Alan Deane, Ernesto DiGiambattista, John Ferrara, Patrick Heim, Carol Clark, Matthew Bigge, Arthur Coviello, Jr., Arthur Coviello, Peter Kuper, John Worrall, Michael Kail, John Steven, Karen Higgins, Patrick Helm and James Routh are independent board members.Here is the list of Harness' board of directors:
Name | Type | Representing | Status | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent board member | - | Current | 8y 7m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 6y 10m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 10y 5m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 8y 7m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 6y 10m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 8y 7m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 5y 11m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 7y 3m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 5y 11m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 7y 3m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 5y 11m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 8y 7m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 6y 10m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 5y 11m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 7y 3m | |
Independent board member | - | Current | 5y 11m |
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Harness' employee count trend
Harness has 1,654 employees as of Mar 26. Here is Harness's employee count trend over the years:
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Harness's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Harness include Vercel, JFrog and LaunchDarkly. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Harness, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st | Vercel 2015, Covina (United States), Series F | Provider of cloud infrastructure and developer tools for web applications | $863M | 81/100 | |
2nd |  JFrog 2008, Sunnyvale (United States), Public | Provider of software supply chain platform for DevOps and security | $227M | 79/100 | |
3rd | Harness 2017, San Francisco (United States), Series E | Provider of platform for software delivery, security, testing, and cost optimization | $614M | 78/100 | |
4th |  LaunchDarkly 2014, Oakland (United States), Series D | Provider of platform for feature flags, experimentation, and AI configuration | $330M | 75/100 | |
5th |  Split 2015, Redwood City (United States), Acquired | Provider of feature management platform for software development and experimentation | $110M | 70/100 | |
6th |  CircleCI 2011, San Francisco (United States), Series F | Provider of a platform for continuous integration and continuous delivery | $316M | 70/100 | |
7th |  A10 Networks 2004, United States, Public | Provider of application delivery, security, and centralized management and analytics solutions | $118M | 69/100 | |
8th |  Komodor 2020, Rockville (United States), Series B | Provider of an autonomous AI SRE platform for Kubernetes management | $72M | 68/100 | |
9th |  Statsig 2021, Kirkland (United States), Acquired | Cloud based AB testing and feature management platform | $153M | 66/100 | |
10th |  Copado 2013, Chicago (United States), Series C | Provider of DevOps platform for Salesforce releases, testing, and compliance | $329M | 66/100 |
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Harness's Investments and acquisitions
Harness has not made any investments yet. Harness has made 8 acquisitions.Here is the list of latest three $acquisitions:Filter this list
Filter this listDate of Investment/Acquisition | Type | Company Name | Founded Year | Location |
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Sep 29, 2025 | Acquisition | 2017 | San Jose (United States) | |
May 29, 2024 | Acquisition | 2015 | Redwood City (United States) | |
Jan 26, 2023 | Acquisition | 2016 | York (United Kingdom) |
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Reports related to Harness
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News related to Harness
Filter this listMedia has covered Harness for a total of 28 events in the last 1 year, 15 of them have been about company updates and 7 about partnerships.
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Infosys and Harness Collaborate to Unlock AI Value for Enterprise TransformationWebDisclosure•Apr 07, 2026•Harness, Infosys
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Harness Launches Features to Help Dev Teams Coordinate Releases at AI SpeedSiliconAngle•Mar 31, 2026•Harness
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Wipro and Harness Collaborate to Accelerate AI-Native Software DeliveryOnline Media Cafe•Mar 18, 2026•Wipro, Harness
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Wipro signs deal with TruStage to transform its retirement services businessBusiness Line•Mar 11, 2026•TruStage, Wipro, Harness
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Harness Secures $240M to Spearhead AI-Powered DevOps Beyond Code EditorSiliconAngle•Dec 11, 2025•Harness, Goldman Sachs, Unusual Ventures, Menlo Ventures and 4 others
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AWS Introduces AI Agents for Autonomous Software DevelopmentSiliconAngle•Dec 02, 2025•Amazon Web Services, Harness, Kiro
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Amazon and Visa Team Up to Advance Agentic Commerce with AWSPYMNTS.com•Dec 01, 2025•Amazon Web Services, Visa, S&P Global, Algolia and 5 others
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Harness Honored by Bank of America at 2025 Technology Innovation SummitPR Newswire•Nov 07, 2025•Harness
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