Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger
Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of startup Harness.HarnessJyoti Bansal knows about weird acquisitions.Eight years ago, his software company, AppDynamics, was on the doorstep of a blockbuster initial public offering. A day before the offering, Cisco swooped in and bought the company for $3.7 billion.Now Bansal is at the center of an equally unconventional combination.Since 2020, Bansal has been running two startups as co-founder and CEO: Harness and Traceable. The former's technology helps companies manage code and the latter's software observes where companies are unintentionally letting out sensitive data.Late this month or early next, Harness and Traceable will merge. The resulting company will have 1,100 employees, $250 million in expected 2025 annualized revenue, a 50% growth rate and...