Harness has raised US$240 million in a Series E round led by Goldman Sachs, pushing the software delivery company to a valuation of US$5.5 billion as it accelerates work on Harness hits US$5.5bn valuation after securing US$240m to automate AI’s “after-code” gapautomating what it calls the AI “after-code” gap, the messy, expensive operational phase that begins after developers finish writing code.
The round drew participation from IVP, Menlo Ventures, and Unusual Ventures, signalling deep investor confidence in Harness’s strategy to streamline deployment, monitoring, security, and governance across AI-powered software pipelines.
The “after-code” phase has become one of the industry’s most pressing bottlenecks as enterprises adopt machine learning and generative AI at scale. While coding tasks are now far faster thanks to AI assistance, the real drag happens after the build, in testing, integrating, deploying, scaling, troubleshooting, and securing systems that are becoming more complex by the month. Harness is pitching itself as the glue that automates that entire lifecycle.
The company’s platform already spans CI/CD, feature management, cloud cost optimisation, IDP tooling, and machine learning pipelines. With the new capital, Harness plans to expand its AI automation engine, deepen integrations across cloud providers, and roll out new governance and security capabilities tailored to heavily-regulated sectors.
Analysts say the raise positions Harness among the top startups shaping enterprise AI infrastructure, especially as companies face spiralling operational costs tied to model deployment and observability. The US$5.5 billion valuation cements the firm as one of the highest-valued private players in the DevOps-plus-AI space heading into 2026.
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