Jyoti Bansal, co -founder and general director of Startup Harness.
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Jyoti Bansal knows about strange acquisitions.
Eight years ago his programming company, AppdynamicsHe was on the threshold of the initial public offer. The day before the victim, Cisco He came up and he bought The company for $ 3.7 billion.
Now Bansal is located in the center of an equally unconventional combination.
Since 2020, Bansal has been running two startups as a co -founder and general director: harness and identifiable. The first technology helps companies manage the code, and the software of the latter observes where companies inadvertently give up confidential data.
At the end of this month or at the beginning there are harnesses and identification. The established company will have $ 1,100, USD 250 million in the expected annual revenues in 2025, 50% growth rate and a valuation of around $ 5 billion.
“It's more or less the same size as Appdynamics when we were to make a public,” said Bansal at CNBC in an interview last week.
Thanks to the combination of Bansal, he said that the harnesses will be able to sell more products to customers, and the identifier will be better insulated by competitors, such as Hashicorp, who IBM he agreed to buy and Akamaiwho acquired a security start last year.
This time Bansal wants an active spare ticking.
In an interview last year with CNBC do itBansal said he was unfulfilled after selling the application and that he did not finish what he started.
“Everyone told me:” You should retire. Go to the beach. What else do you have to do? ” – said Bansal. “It was also my first instinct. I wanted to wander around the Himalayas, wander Machu Picchu, make a safari in Africa, see fjords in Norway. In six months my list of buckets was finished. And I started to realize: it's not for me. “
Bansal returned to work and founded Big Labs, a studio to discover startup ideas. Large laboratories Born harvest In 2017, and then identifiable in 2020, Sanjay Nagaraj, the second co -founder of Tricable, remembered his work on a security start in a dedicated laboratory room at the headquarters of the San Francisco Harness.
The layout was unconventional.
“I've never done it before, I supported the general director to run two companies at the same time,” said Steve Harrick, who joined the institutional Venture partners in 2001 and sits on the harness and identifiable boards. “But Jyoti is so good. He is not only a great director, but he employs and delegates well, so I just talked to Jyoti. I said, “It's a serious risk.” I was sure that he wouldn't make a third one. “
The establishment of the harness and identifiable as separate companies made sense to Bansal at that time, because their products would usually be sold to various buyers in the organization. However, he said that this has changed over the past year or two, because the leaders of engineering and technology also began to make decisions regarding tools to secure code and data.
He said that the employees drew attention to the change and during the meetings of all hands in both companies many times asked Bansal about consolidation. Questions also came from customers.
“The harness beam team would organize a meeting with the director at the bank or some of our clients,” said Bansal. “I would go to a meeting and the director said:” This is an hour meeting. Can we save the last 15 minutes? Because I also want to talk about Traceble. “
Bansal was effectively the first IT person in both companies, establishing the same Google Productivity applications and Carta capital management software as you start. The spokesman said that 70% of the largest tricable clients are also harness customers.
Cultures were also similar. As harnesses and mature identified, Bansal chose the general director to launch every characteristic new product or module. When examining revenues from modules, the management of both startups consists in theory that the investor's battery Neeraj AGRAWAL calls “triple, triple, double, double, double” or T2D3. The model he wrote about Agrawal TechCrunch In 2015, he describes the annual increase in revenues that can be managed by cloud software startups.
In November, Bansal told two boards that his companies are on convergent paths and that it would be difficult to stop them from competing with each other. He received briefing for the merger.
Initially, the identifier will act as its own unit under the harness, the dominant company, and Nagaraj will be the general director. Bansal said that the structure may change in the future.
He is convinced that technologies will connect well and can use closer integration. The harness will be able to help customers understand the origin of the source code, and the identifier can show how people use it.
Harrick calls it a good result and said he was excited to consolidate his plant for Bansal.
“I think that for all investors it is a benefit to focus on running one company instead of two,” said Harrick.
