A software delivery platform that uses AI and automation to help engineering and DevOps teams build, test, secure, and deploy applications through the CI/CD pipeline.
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Dec 2025 Series E (a 49% up-round vs. the $3.7B Apr 2022 Series D) values the company at $5.5B on a roughly $250M ARR trajectory in AI-driven software delivery/governance. The separate $40M secondary tender signals a deliberate effort to give early employees/investors liquidity absent a near-term IPO. Harness acquired Codecov from Sentry in June 2026 (undisclosed terms) -- M&A activity, not a funding event, but relevant post-Series-E capital deployment context. CFO Bill Koefoed (ex-OneStream) joined around May 2026, publicly framed as building the financial profile needed for eventual public markets. No S-1 filed; CEO Jyoti Bansal describes an IPO as a long-term goal contingent on growth/efficiency thresholds, with no committed timeline.
Low: Revelio Labs, Mar 2026. High: Tracxn, Aug 2026.
As of 2026-09-13 · live via greenhouse's public job board · ≈3.9% of the 1,797–1,828 estimated team
+11 more roles across 9 other teams.
See all open roles at Harness →Harness began as a continuous-delivery service whose Continuous Verification compares metrics and logs from newly deployed nodes against baseline nodes and rolls back automatically on regression. From 2020 it became a multi-module software delivery platform, largely by acquisition, and its 2026 releases centre on agents for software delivery.
| Date | Type | What |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | Milestone | Code repository with AI code review released, following an Agent DLC for the agent development lifecycle (July 21) |
| Jun 30, 2026 | Milestone | Autonomous Worker Agents for software delivery released |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Acquisition | Codecov (from Sentry) |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Acquisition | Qwiet AI (formerly ShiftLeft) |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Milestone | US 12,399,806 B2 granted, covering Test Intelligence, which runs a subset of tests ordered by predicted failure likelihood |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Acquisition | Traceable (merger) |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Milestone | Gitness renamed Harness Open Source, adding hosted development environments and an artifact registry |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Acquisition | Split Software |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Acquisition | Armory (assets) |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Milestone | Gitness, an Apache-2.0 code-hosting platform with Drone-based pipelines, released |
| Aug 2, 2022 | Milestone | Security Testing Orchestration, built on ZeroNorth, reaches GA |
| Mar 22, 2022 | Acquisition | ChaosNative |
| Jan 2022 | Milestone | CD Community Edition released under PolyForm source-available terms; it was retired December 18, 2023 and its repositories made private |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Patent filed | US 2023/0010781 A1 Reducing time to test cycle first fail |
| Jun 2021 | Acquisition | Lightwing |
| Oct 27, 2020 | Milestone | US 10,819,593 B1 granted, on a scored health signal from short-term statistical comparison, pattern recognition and long-term drift analysis |
| Oct 22, 2020 | Milestone | Continuous Integration launched after the Drone.io purchase (August 5, 2020), turning the single CD product into a multi-module platform |
| Aug 5, 2020 | Acquisition | Drone.io |
| Mar 27, 2020 | Patent filed | US 12,399,806 B2 Test cycle time reduction and optimization |
| Jan 8, 2020 | Patent filed | US 10,819,593 B1 Reporting continuous system service status based on using real-time short-term and long-term analysis techniques |
| Nov 21, 2019 | Patent filed | US 11,416,368 B2 Continuous system service monitoring using real-time short-term and long-term analysis techniques |
| Feb 19, 2018 | Milestone | Priority date of US 11,086,919 B2, which clusters log messages by similarity to detect new or more frequent events after a deploy |
| Feb 19, 2018 | Patent filed | US 11,086,919 B2 Service regression detection using real-time anomaly detection of log data |
| Oct 24, 2017 | Milestone | Left stealth with Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service; founded in 2017 by Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics, and Rishi Singh |
Patents. Harness's own patents cover Continuous Verification and Test Intelligence; patents originally granted to ZeroNorth, Traceable, ShiftLeft (Qwiet AI), Armory and Split now list Harness as current assignee.
Harness Inc. (San Francisco) was founded in 2017 by Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics, and Rishi Singh, formerly a deployment-platform architect at Apple; it left stealth October 24, 2017 with a $20M Series A. The original product was "Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service": deployment pipelines paired with Continuous Verification, in which the system compares metrics and logs from newly deployed nodes against baseline nodes and rolls back automatically on regression. The company's own patents sit here: US 11,086,919 B2 (priority February 19, 2018) clusters log messages by textual and contextual similarity to detect new or more frequent events after a deploy; US 10,819,593 B1 (granted October 27, 2020) and US 11,416,368 B2 (granted August 16, 2022) layer short-term statistical comparison, learned pattern recognition and long-term drift analysis into a scored health signal. Company documentation describes Symbolic Aggregate Approximation for time-series distance and, as of 2026, an "AI Verify (v2)" step using in-cluster collection plugins, statistical anomaly detection and LLM contextualisation.
From 2020 the single CD product became a multi-module platform, largely by acquisition. Continuous Integration launched October 22, 2020 after the Drone.io purchase (August 5, 2020); its Test Intelligence feature, which runs a subset of tests ordered by predicted failure likelihood, is covered by US 12,399,806 B2 (granted August 26, 2025). Cloud Cost Management gained AutoStopping of idle environments from Lightwing (integrated by June 16, 2021). Security Testing Orchestration was built on ZeroNorth, which Harness's documentation says it acquired in 2021 (GA August 2, 2022). Chaos Engineering came from ChaosNative, creator of the CNCF LitmusChaos project (March 22, 2022). Later deals added Armory's CD assets (January 11, 2024), Split's feature management and experimentation (closed June 11, 2024), Traceable's API security in a merger completed March 4, 2025, Qwiet AI's code-property-graph vulnerability analysis (September 26, 2025) and Codecov from Sentry (June 2, 2026). Harness's chief executive told TechCrunch the Armory assets cost about $7 million in cash; no other purchase price has been disclosed.
The open-source posture is mixed. The Drone repository splits an Apache-2.0 Community Edition from an Enterprise Edition under the Drone Non-Commercial License, which limits commercial use to a 32-day trial with waivers for companies under $5M revenue or under 5,000 pipeline runs a year. A CD Community Edition released January 2022 under PolyForm source-available terms was retired December 18, 2023 and its repositories made private. Gitness, an Apache-2.0 code-hosting platform with Drone-based pipelines, was released September 21, 2023 and renamed Harness Open Source on September 25, 2024, adding hosted development environments and an artifact registry. The commercial platform is proprietary, sold as SaaS, on-premises or hybrid.
In 2026 the company's releases centre on agents: Autonomous Worker Agents for software delivery (June 30), an "Agent DLC" for the agent development lifecycle (July 21) and a code repository with AI code review (August 27). Google Patents assigns eight filings to Harness Inc directly; patents originally granted to ZeroNorth, Traceable, ShiftLeft (Qwiet AI), Armory and Split now list Harness as current assignee, so the effective portfolio is larger than its own filings. "Harness" is a common word; every item here was checked against Harness Inc., San Francisco.
Profile as of Sep 18, 2026.
| Round | Date | Valuation | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series E | 2025-12-11 | $5.5B+49% | Goldman Sachs Alternatives |
| Series D | 2022-04-01 | $3.7B+118% | Norwest Venture Partners |
| Series C | 2021-01-14 | $1.7B+240% | Alkeon Capital |
| Series B | 2019-04-23 | $500M | Co-led by IVP, GV (Google Ventures), and ServiceNow Ventures -- no single lead named |
No upcoming rounds currently reported.
| Status | S-1 Not Filed |
|---|---|
| Key hire | Bill Koefoed -- former OneStream Software CFO who guided the company through its July 2024 IPO -- hired as Harness's CFO, announced May 4, 2026 |
| Timing | 2-4 years (third-party estimate, not company guidance) |
| Notes | CEO Jyoti Bansal: long-term goal contingent on growth/efficiency thresholds, no committed timeline. |
| Source | Axios, Dec 11 2025; CFO Dive, ~May 2026 |
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