Glean has emerged as the “Google for the Workplace,” solving the single most frustrating problem in modern corporate life: the fragmentation of knowledge. As companies multiplied their SaaS tools—scattering data across Slack, Jira, Salesforce, Google Drive, and Notion—employees lost the ability to find anything. Glean solves this by building a unified Enterprise Knowledge Graph that connects to all of a company’s apps, indexes every document and conversation, and makes them searchable via a single, permission-aware interface.
Core Technology: The Enterprise Graph & RAG
- Deep Learning Search: Unlike keyword matching, Glean uses vector embeddings to understand the semantic meaning of queries (e.g., understanding that “Q3 roadmap” and “fall planning doc” might be the same thing).
- Permission-Aware RAG: The platform’s critical moat is its governance engine. It mirrors the permissions of every source app in real-time, ensuring that an intern never sees a document in search results that is restricted to the CEO.
- Glean Agents: A low-code framework allowing teams to chain together multiple steps (Search → Summarize → Email) to automate repetitive workflows.
- 100+ Connectors: Native, pre-built integrations for virtually every major SaaS tool, including GitHub, ServiceNow, Workday, and Figma.
Business & Market Status
Valuation: Valued at $7.2 Billion following a massive $150 Million Series F round in June 2025 led by Wellington Management.
Revenue: Surpassed $100 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in record time, making it one of the fastest-growing enterprise SaaS startups in history.
Adoption: Deployed by major tech and enterprise giants including Databricks, Duolingo, Canva, and Grammarly to serve as their internal “brain.”
Company Profile
CEO: Arvind Jain (former Distinguished Engineer at Google and co-founder of Rubrik).
Headquarters: Palo Alto, California.
Funding: Raised over $760 Million total.
Key Investors: Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Wellington Management.
Key Use Cases
| Use Case | Description |
|---|---|
| Universal Search | Employees use a single command bar (Command+J) to instantly find files, people, or tickets across 50+ different apps without switching tabs. |
| New Hire Onboarding | New employees ask Glean “How do I set up my VPN?” or “Who owns the billing service?” and get instant, verified answers from internal wikis. |
| Engineering Support | Developers use Glean to search across private GitHub repositories and Jira tickets simultaneously to debug code or understand legacy decisions. |
Why It Matters
Glean proves that “Context” is the missing link in enterprise AI. While ChatGPT knows the world, it doesn’t know your company. By successfully grounding AI in a secure, real-time index of internal data, Glean has become the default interface for the AI-enabled employee, effectively replacing the corporate intranet with an intelligent agent that knows everything your company has ever written.
