# Glean

> Glean is a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI company that builds a 'Work AI' platform - a permissions-aware assistant, search layer, and agent environment that connects to a company's scattered SaaS tools and documents so employees can find answers and automate work. Founded in 2019 by former Google search engineers led by Arvind Jain, Glean crossed $200M in ARR by late 2025 and was valued at $7.2 billion in its June 2025 Series F.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Arvind Jain (Co-founder & CEO), T.R. Vishwanath (Co-founder, Technical Infrastructure Lead), Tony Gentilcore (Co-founder, Product Engineering Lead), Piyush Prahladka (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~1,000-1,500 employees (up from ~337 in March 2024 and ~614 in September 2024)
- **Products:** Glean Assistant, Enterprise Search, Glean Agents, Enterprise Graph, Work AI Institute
- **Notable:** Reached $7.2B valuation within about six years of founding, Crossed $100M ARR less than three years after launch, then doubled to $200M in nine months, Grew headcount from ~337 to over 1,000 in roughly two years

## Products & services

- **Glean Assistant** — A company-wide AI assistant that searches across internal tools, documents, and the web, then reasons through multi-step tasks. Third-generation version personalizes results per employee.
- **Enterprise Search** — Permissions-aware search across 100+ SaaS connectors that surfaces documents, conversations, and data a given user is allowed to see.
- **Glean Agents** — A horizontal, no-code environment where any employee can build, use, and manage AI agents in natural language to automate multi-step work.
- **Enterprise Graph** — A continuously updated model of an organization's people, projects, processes, and data that gives AI real context about how work happens.
- **Work AI Institute** — A research collaborative with academics at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard studying how AI actually drives business results; publishes the annual Work AI Index.

## Achievements

- Reached $7.2B valuation within about six years of founding
- Crossed $100M ARR less than three years after launch, then doubled to $200M in nine months
- Grew headcount from ~337 to over 1,000 in roughly two years
- Recognized as a Market Shaper in the 2026 Gartner Emerging Market Quadrant for No-Code Agent Builders (Startup Vendors)
- Launched the Work AI Institute, a first-of-its-kind enterprise-AI research collaborative with top universities

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Recognized as a Market Shaper in the 2026 Gartner Emerging Market Quadrant for No-Code Agent Builders; released inaugural Work AI Index finding AI saves ~11 hours/week but workers spend 6.4 hours 'botsitting.'
- **2026-06** — Added support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, expanding model choice on the platform.
- **2026-05** — Introduced the enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC) framework for building, governing, and measuring AI agents.
- **2025-12** — Launched the Work AI Institute and debuted enterprise autonomous agents built on Glean Enterprise Context.
- **2025-09** — Introduced third-generation Glean Assistant and the Enterprise Graph at its Fall '25 launch.
- **2025-06** — Raised $150M Series F at a $7.2B valuation, led by Wellington Management.

## Links

- Website: https://glean.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gleanwork
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/glean
- GitHub: https://github.com/gleanwork
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@gleanwork
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/gleanwork

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Last updated: 2026-07-11