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Glean — Startup ProfileWork AI that knows your work — search and AI assistant for the enterpriseHQ: Palo Alto, CA, United States | Founded: 2019 | Employees: 850+ | Stage: Late Stage VC | Website: https://www.glean.comAboutGlean is a Work AI platform that provides enterprise search, a generative AI assistant, and agentic automation for the modern workplace. Founded in 2019 by Arvind Jain (CEO, former Google Distinguished Engineer and co-founder of Rubrik), T.R. Vishwanath (CTO), Piyush Prahladka, and Tony Gentilcore — all former Google and Rubrik engineers — Glean indexes and understands all of a company's data across 100+ workplace applications including Slack, Google Drive, Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, and ServiceNow. The platform builds a company-specific Knowledge Graph mapping people, content, and interactions to deliver personalized, permission-aware answers and actions.The company has scaled to $200M ARR as of December 2025, doubling from $100M in January 2025, with a $7.2B valuation followKey Metrics

Latest Valuation: $7.2B (June 2025, Series F)

Last Round: $150M Series F

Total Funding: $765M

ARR: $200M (December 2025)

Headcount: 850+

Customers: 1,000+ enterprises

Funding Rounds

Round: $150M (2025-06-10) — Wellington Management

Round: $260M (2024-09-10) — Altimeter Capital, DST Global

Round: $200M (2024-02-15) — Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Round: $100M (2022-05-17) — Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst

Round: $40M (2020-11-18) — Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Key People

Arvind Jain

T.R. Vishwanath

Piyush Prahladka

Tony Gentilcore

Key Competitors

Microsoft Copilot (M365 Copilot) —

Google Gemini Enterprise —

Amazon Q —

Perplexity Enterprise / Comet —

Timeline Highlights

2025-12-15: ARR reaches $200M, 100M+ agent actions per year

2025-09-01: 100+ connectors milestone and Knowledge Graph enhancements

2025-06-10: Series F: $150M at $7.2B valuation led by Wellington Management

2025-01-15: ARR reaches $100M

2024-09-10: Glean Agents and Glean Apps unveiled