Glean is a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI company founded in 2019 by Arvind Jain, a former Google distinguished engineer and co-founder of data security company Rubrik, along with a team of former Google search and infrastructure engineers. The company's core product is an AI-powered enterprise search and work assistant that connects across an organization's internal tools and data sources, aiming to give employees a unified, permission-aware layer for finding information and getting AI assistance across their work applications.
Glean has positioned itself as infrastructure for enterprise AI adoption broadly, sitting beneath other AI tools an organization uses rather than competing as a standalone point solution. The company reached a valuation of $7.2 billion, backed by investors including Sequoia Capital, and CEO Arvind Jain has been a vocal proponent of the view that AI is best understood as augmenting rather than replacing the workforce.