Glean AI is a technology company.
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 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.
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 | 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 | |
| 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 |