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Jyoti Bansal

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Jyoti Bansal is a serial technology entrepreneur. He was founder & CEO of AppDynamics, a company that provided software engineers insights into code performance. AppDynamics was acquired by Cisco Systems for $3.7 billion in 2017. He is currently founder & CEO of two high-growth technology companies: Harness - an AI platform to automate software deployments, and Traceable AI - a cybersecurity platform for securing software applications. Harness was valued at $1.7 billion in a private financing round in 2021. Jyoti is also co-founder of Unusual Ventures - a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups and has $600 million under management. Jyoti has been a recipient of many leadership awards, including Forbes’ “Best Cloud Computing CEO to Work For”, “Best CEO” by San Francisco Business Times, and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year™ for Northern California.

 Jyoti received his BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is a prolific inventor and has more than 25 US patents under his name.