Harness Nets $240M at $5.5B Valuation to Advance DevSecOps

Goldman Sachs-Led Round Supports Harness's Push Into AI Security and Automation Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • December 11, 2025

A San Francisco-based AI software delivery platform raised $240 million to better test, secure, deploy and maintain code using artificial intelligence.

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Harness said its Series E financing round will allow the company to grow its SDLC knowledge graph by integrating third-party data and building a robust semantic layer for deep contextual understanding, said co-founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal. He said the money will help Harness extend its 15-module platform into areas such as load and mobile testing, API/code security, and cost optimization for AI workloads.

"In most software engineering teams, only the first 30% of the work is the coding, which is called the inner loop of software engineering," he said. "A developer writes code on the laptop, and ...