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After selling AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion days before its IPO, Bansal immediately founded Harness, a software delivery platform now backed by hundreds of millions in venture capital — proving the first exit was a starting line, not a finish.
Jyoti Bansal is Founder and CEO of Harness, a software-delivery platform he started in 2017, and Co-Founder of AppDynamics, the application-performance monitoring company Cisco acquired in 2017 for $3.7 billion just days before its planned IPO.
He founded AppDynamics in 2008 and grew it into an enterprise application-intelligence leader. He is also a general partner at his venture firm, Unusual Ventures. He studied at IIT Delhi before immigrating to the U.S.
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