Harness

Harness

Intelligent software delivery and cloud cost management

About Harness

Simplify's Rating
Why Harness is rated
B+
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated A on Growth Potential
Rated B on Rating Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$389.1M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2017

Overview

Harness offers software delivery and cloud cost management solutions, focusing on automating the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) process. Its platform helps businesses streamline their software development lifecycle, from code integration to deployment and monitoring. A notable feature is the Cloud Cost Management tool, which identifies and mitigates cost anomalies in real-time, helping companies control their cloud spending. Harness operates on a subscription model and aims to assist a wide range of clients, from large enterprises to startups, in accelerating software delivery while maintaining quality and cost efficiency.

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Harness secured $150 million to expand AI-driven solutions and enter new markets.
  • The company ranks in Forbes 2024 Cloud 100, highlighting its innovation in cloud solutions.
  • Acquisition of Rig.dev enhances Kubernetes developer experiences, strengthening Harness's platform.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from Google's Code Assist with Gemini 2.0 challenges Harness's AI solutions.
  • The Traceable merger may lead to integration challenges, affecting service delivery.
  • Rig.dev acquisition could result in cultural and operational integration issues, impacting productivity.

What makes Harness unique

  • Harness offers a unique Cloud Cost Management solution for real-time cost anomaly detection.
  • The platform integrates AI-native agents for enhanced DevSecOps capabilities post-Traceable merger.
  • Harness provides a self-managed enterprise edition for Kubernetes, offering client infrastructure flexibility.

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Funding

Total Funding

$389.1M

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Industry Average

Funded Over

5 Rounds

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Benefits

Competitive salary and early-stage stock options

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Flexible work schedule

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Paid Time Off & Parental Leave

Monthly, quarterly, & annual social and team building events

TGIF-Off program

Remote office stipend

Monthly internet reimbursement

Monthly Food & Beverage Reimbursement Program

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 2%

1 year growth

↑ 0%

2 year growth

↓ -2%
PR Newswire
Feb 10th, 2025
Harness And Traceable Announce Merger To Shape The Future Of Ai-Driven Software Delivery

Strategic combination creates the world's most advanced AI-Native DevSecOps PlatformSAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Harness, the AI-Native Software Delivery Platformℱ company, and Traceable, the next-generation API Security Platform, today jointly announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement, creating the world's most advanced AI-native DevSecOps platform.  Together, Harness and Traceable will enable software teams to seamlessly develop, deploy, and secure applications, ensuring security is embedded at every stage of the software lifecycle

Tech Savvy Media
Feb 3rd, 2025
Rig.dev acquired by Harness for billions

The Aarhus-based startup Rig.dev has been acquired by San Francisco's Harness, a leading company in DevOps and platform engineering, which raised over DKK 1 billion last year. Rig.dev, known for enhancing developer experiences on Kubernetes, secured a DKK 15 million pre-seed investment in 2022. With the acquisition, Harness gains exclusive rights to Rig.dev's technology, and the Aarhus team will join the American company.

VentureBeat
Jan 22nd, 2025
How Harness Is ‘Harnessing’ Agentic Ai To Help Improve Enterprise Incident Response With Automated Data Collection And Playbooks

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Incident response, the process of responding to system disruptions and slowdowns, is a critical aspect of IT operations. It’s also an activity that traditionally involves a lot of manual, time-consuming processes.That’s a challenge Harness is taking aim at with a new incident response service. The technology enters early access today as a module on the company’s eponymous platform. Harness got its start in 2017 with an initial focus on continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) automation for DevOps

VentureBeat
Dec 17th, 2024
Google Upgrades Its Programming Agent Code Assist With Gemini 2.0, Adds Source Integrations

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. On the heels of releasing its new generative AI models, Google updated its Code Assist tools to work with Gemini 2.0 and expanded the external data sources it connects to. Code Assist will now run on the recently released Gemini 2.0, offering a larger context window to understand bigger code bases from enterprises. Google will also launch Gemini Code Assist tools in a private preview. The platform will connect to data sources like GitLab, GitHub, Google Docs, Sentry.io, Atlassian and Snyk. This will allow developers and other coders to ask Code Assist for help directly in their IDEs. Previously, Code Assist connected to VS Code and JetBrains. Google Cloud senior director for product management Ryan J

LinkedIn
Dec 2nd, 2024
Darrell Dunn on LinkedIn: #harness #overops #devops #sre #lasvegas #rocketship | 10 comments

I am very excited to share that OverOps has been acquired by Harness! After working with Jyoti Bansal at AppDynamics, I am honored to be working with him on
 | 10 comments on LinkedIn

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