Jyoti Bansal

Jyoti Bansal

Jyoti Bansal (#1847)

Global Rank #1847
Country Rank #610
Country United States

I strongly believe to build a company you have to spend a lot of time on it. Ten years at least.

  • $ 2 B
  • AI software
  • United States
  • M
  • 48 Years

Snapshot

Quick Facts

Global Rank #1,847
Country Rank #610
Net Worth $2.3B
Previous Worth $2.3B
Worth Change +$0.0B
Country United States
Industry AI software
Age 48 Years
Gender M
Worth As Of May 4, 2026
Residence San Francisco, California
Citizenship United States

Profile Data

Personal Stats

Age 48
Source Of Wealth AI software, Self Made
Residence San Francisco, California
Citizenship United States
Net Worth Change +$0.0B +0.0% from previous worth
Previous Net Worth $2.3B
Current Net Worth $2.3B

Worth as of May 4, 2026

About Me

Jyoti Bansal is the founder and CEO of software delivery company Harness, which uses AI agents to automate the manual labor of making sure code is secure and compliant with regulations. Bansal grew up helping his dad with his farming machinery business in a small town in India's Rajasthan state, before testing into Delhi's Indian Institute of Technology for computer engineering. He immigrated to the U.S. at age 21 and worked as an engineer at a handful of startups in Silicon Valley for seven years on an H1-B visa before getting his green card. Bansal sold his first company, AppDynamics, which diagnoses and troubleshoots software anomalies, to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017. He founded Harness soon after. Harness raised a $240 million Series E funding round from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Institutional Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures at a $5.5 billion valuation in late 2025.

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Forbes List Highlights

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#1834
Billionaires (2026)

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Did You Know?

Bansal fell in love with entrepreneurship after he met billionaire Bill Gates, who visited Delhi's Indian Institute of Technology when Bansal was a student.

Bansal has hiked Machu Picchu, trekked the Himalayas and gone on multiple African safaris.

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Net Worth Growth Over Time

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