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Glean AI is a technology company.
Glean AI develops an enterprise Work AI platform that unifies an organization’s scattered data, offering an intelligent layer of search, AI assistants, and agents. This platform connects to a company’s entire digital ecosystem, providing employees with instant access to relevant information, generating content, and automating workflows. It leverages a system of context and knowledge graphs to deliver secure, personalized intelligence directly into daily operations, enhancing productivity across numerous applications and data sources.
The company was co-founded in March 2019 by Arvind Jain, who previously served as a Distinguished Engineer at Google and co-founded Rubrik. He is joined by fellow co-founders T.R. Vishwanath, formerly of Microsoft and Meta, and Piyush Prahladka, who worked at Google and Uber, alongside Tony Gentilcore. Their collective insight stemmed from the challenge of information fragmentation within enterprises due to the proliferation of SaaS applications, recognizing the need for a unified AI-powered solution for knowledge discovery and utilization.
Glean AI serves a broad range of enterprise customers across departments such as engineering, customer service, sales, marketing, and IT, as well as industries including retail, financial services, and healthcare. The company’s vision is to expand human potential by transforming how work gets done, making enterprise knowledge intelligent and instantly actionable. They aim to empower employees to achieve extraordinary work by seamlessly integrating AI into their workflows.
Glean AI has raised $11.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Glean AI has raised $11.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Glean AI has raised $11.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Glean AI's investors include Contour Venture Partners, 500 Global, Accel, Aleph VC, American Express Ventures, Archetype, Basis Set Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, Coatue, Company Capital, Corner Ventures.
Glean AI is a SaaS platform delivering Work AI—an AI-powered enterprise search, assistant, and agent system that unifies knowledge across apps, automates tasks, and boosts productivity for enterprises.[2][4][5] It serves large organizations in over 50 industries, including tech leaders like Reddit, Instacart, Pinterest, Duolingo, Databricks, and BILL, solving the problem of fragmented data trapped in hundreds of tools by providing secure, contextual AI access.[2][3][7] With $100M+ ARR, a customer base that more than doubled recently, and expansion into financial services, retail, and manufacturing, Glean demonstrates strong growth momentum, recently raising $150M in Series F at a $7.2B valuation.[1][2][7]
Glean was founded in 2019 by Arvind Jain (CEO, former Google Distinguished Engineer who led Search, Maps, and YouTube teams, and co-founder of Rubrik), along with Vishwanath T R, Tony Gentilcore, and Piyush Prahladka—all former Google search engineers frustrated by poor workplace information access.[1][3][5][8] The idea emerged from their realization that enterprises lacked an easy way to find answers amid siloed data, prompting them to build advanced AI-powered enterprise search.[5] Early traction came from deep integrations and a land-and-expand sales model, starting with departmental pilots in mid-sized tech firms (500-2,000 employees) and scaling to multi-year enterprise deals, fueled by Lightspeed and Kleiner Perkins co-leading a $200M+ Series D.[1][3]
Glean stands out in the crowded AI space through these key strengths:
Glean rides the enterprise AI agent wave, capitalizing on generative AI's shift from chatbots to task automation and multi-step processes amid exploding data volumes in hybrid work environments.[2][3][7] Timing is ideal post-ChatGPT hype, as firms demand secure, production-ready AI amid regulatory scrutiny—Glean's RAG tech and governance address reliability gaps others overlook.[2][3][6] Market forces like AI adoption acceleration (e.g., 50+ industries) and partner ecosystems favor it, influencing the ecosystem by becoming the "system of context" for organizational intelligence, enabling faster innovation in engineering, sales, support, and beyond.[2][4][7]
Glean's trajectory points to dominance in agentic Work AI, with fresh Series F capital fueling product depth in security/search/agents, partner growth, and international scaling to capture AI-leading enterprises.[7] Trends like multimodal AI, deeper vertical integrations (e.g., finance/retail/manufacturing), and ROI-focused automation will propel it, potentially evolving from search pioneer to indispensable AI OS for work—unlocking unprecedented productivity as data silos dissolve.[1][2][7] This positions Glean to transform how AI makes enterprises extraordinary, starting from its core mission of expanding human potential.
Glean AI has raised $11.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $8.0M Seed in March 2022.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2022 | $8.0M Seed | Contour Venture Partners | 500 Global, Accel, Aleph VC, American Express Ventures, Archetype, Basis Set Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, Coatue, Company Capital, Corner Ventures, General Catalyst, Intuit Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, SOSV, Trajectory Ventures, Valar Ventures, White Star Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Work-Bench, Arash Ferdowsi, Balaji Srinivasan, Julia Kagan, Nitay Joffe, Roger Ehrenberg, Margaret Lim, B Capital Group, Infinity Ventures, Portage Ventures |
| Feb 1, 2020 | $3.0M Seed | 500 Global, Accel, Aleph VC, American Express Ventures, Archetype, Basis Set Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, Coatue, Company Capital, Contour Venture Partners, Corner Ventures, General Catalyst, Intuit Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, SOSV, Trajectory Ventures, Valar Ventures, White Star Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Work-Bench, Arash Ferdowsi, Balaji Srinivasan, Julia Kagan, Nitay Joffe, Roger Ehrenberg |