Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger

Jyoti Bansal knows about weird acquisitions.Eight years ago, his software company, AppDynamics, was on the doorstep of a blockbuster IPO. A day before the offering, Cisco swooped in and bought the company for $2.7 billionNow 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 lett ...