Glean Pulls in $260M to Reinvent Enterprise Knowledge as the 'ChatGPT for Work

"Put knowledge where people trip over it" - Carla O'Dell

Amid the dominance of digital clutter, Glean emerged with a mission: to make sense of the vast information that modern enterprises drown in. Founded in 2019 by a team of tech veterans, Glean is turning the chaos of scattered data into something every worker dreams of—a seamless and intuitive search experience. With their latest funding round of $260 million, the company is poised to continue reshaping how businesses access and manage knowledge.

“This is exactly what we’re building at Glean: Work AI for all.” says Arvind Jain

A Challenge Close to Home

The idea for Glean originated from a common frustration: information overload. Arvind Jain, Glean’s co-founder and CEO, first encountered this issue at Rubrik, a company he helped build. As Rubrik grew, Jain noticed productivity slowing due to knowledge being scattered across numerous applications, making it nearly impossible for employees to find the information they needed promptly. This challenge inspired Jain and his co-founders—T.R. Vishwanath (Infrastructure Lead), Tony Gentilcore (Product Engineering Lead), and Piyush Prahladka (former Head of Search & AI)—to create Glean. Their goal was to develop a search tool with the power of Google but tailored for the complexities of modern enterprise environments.