GV, ServiceNow Ventures and IVP co-led the series B round, which valued the AI-based software testing and deployment platform at $500m.

US-based software engineering platform Harness secured $60m on Tuesday in a series B round co-led by investment subsidiaries of internet and technology conglomerate Alphabet and enterprise software provider ServiceNow.

GV and ServiceNow Ventures co-led the round alongside venture capital firm IVP, and it also featured Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures. It increased the company’s valuation to $500m, co-founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal told TechCrunch.

Founded in 2016, Harness has created a machine learning and artificial intelligence-equipped platform that helps engineering…