Introduction
Glean provides an AI-powered search and assistant platform that helps employees find information and get answers from across a company’s internal systems, rather than searching each application separately. Founded in Palo Alto in 2019 by a team of former Google search engineers, Glean has grown quickly alongside enterprise demand for AI tools that can safely operate on internal company data.
What the company does
Glean connects to an organization’s collaboration, knowledge, and business applications — including document stores, ticketing systems, and chat tools — and indexes that content while respecting each user’s existing access permissions. On top of that index, Glean provides conversational search and generative answers, letting employees ask questions in natural language and receive responses grounded in the company’s own content rather than the open internet. The company has expanded its product to include AI agents that can complete multi-step tasks using the same permissioned knowledge base, moving from a tool that mainly answers questions toward one that can also take action on an employee’s behalf across connected systems.
Who it serves
Glean’s customers are typically mid-market and large enterprises whose employees need to search across many disconnected internal tools — engineering, sales, support, and HR systems, among others — to do their jobs. The company markets Glean as a way to reduce time spent hunting for information and to give employees a single entry point into company knowledge, and it has increasingly pitched the platform to IT and security teams as well, given the emphasis on permissions-aware access to sensitive internal content.
Company background
Arvind Jain founded Glean in 2019 together with T.R. Vishwanath, Tony Gentilcore, and Piyush Prahladka, all of whom had previously worked on search-related products at Google, where Jain led engineering teams across Search, Maps, and YouTube. Jain also co-founded Rubrik, a data security company that later went public, before starting Glean, and serves as Glean’s CEO. The company has raised more than $700 million in venture funding, and its valuation has risen quickly: from $2.2 billion in early 2024 to $4.6 billion in September 2024, and to $7.2 billion following a $150 million Series F round led by Wellington Management in June 2025, according to Glean’s official announcement and confirmed by multiple independent outlets. Glean is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and has expanded internationally, including opening an office in Bengaluru, India, in 2024.
Product and AI capabilities
Glean’s platform combines enterprise search, a generative AI assistant, and an expanding set of AI agent capabilities, all built on connectors to widely used enterprise software such as Slack, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and Jira. Because Glean indexes content according to each user’s existing permissions, its answers are scoped to what a given employee is already allowed to see, which the company positions as a key differentiator from general-purpose AI chatbots. Glean has continued to expand its agent capabilities to help automate not just information retrieval but multi-step workplace tasks that depend on that retrieved information.
Key developments
Glean raised a $260 million Series E round in September 2024 at a $4.6 billion valuation, then raised a $150 million Series F round in June 2025, led by Wellington Management, at a $7.2 billion valuation. The company said it surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue within roughly three years of launching, and expanded international operations, including opening an office in Bengaluru, India, in 2024.
Why it matters
Glean is one of the highest-profile examples of the enterprise search category being reshaped by generative AI, and its rapid valuation growth between 2024 and 2025 reflects how much investor interest has concentrated on AI tools that can operate safely on internal company data. For readers tracking enterprise AI adoption, Glean is a useful case study in how permissions-aware retrieval has become a baseline requirement rather than a nice-to-have feature.
Sector context
Within enterprise software, Glean’s retrieval-and-assistant approach sits close to workplace automation tools such as Moveworks, which likewise connects AI to internal systems to resolve employee requests, though Moveworks has since become part of ServiceNow’s platform. Glean also increasingly overlaps with generative AI platforms built for specific enterprise workflows, such as Writer, since both companies are extending beyond their original use case — search in Glean’s case, content generation in Writer’s — toward broader, agent-based enterprise assistants.
Sources and references
This profile is based on Glean’s official about page and its own press release announcing the June 2025 Series F round, cross-referenced with independent reporting from Reuters and TechCrunch on funding amounts and valuation history.