Glean Raises Over $260M in Series E Funding to Scale AI Innovation and Global Expansion
Glean’s AI-powered platform serves a wide range of industries, with customers including Reddit, Instacart, Pinterest, Duolingo, Databricks, BILL, Samsara, Grammarly, and major enterprises in telecommunications, banking, retail, semiconductors, electronics, and manufacturing.
Company Name: Glean
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Sector: Work AI, Enterprise Software
Funding Details: Raised over $260 million in Series E funding at a $4.6 billion valuation. The round was led by Altimeter and DST Global, with participation from new investors Craft Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and existing investors Coatue, General Catalyst, ICONIQ Growth, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sequoia Capital.
Purpose of Investment: The company plans to use the funds to accelerate AI innovation, customer acquisition, and global expansion.
Product and Innovation: Founded by Arvind Jain (Google Distinguished Engineer, Rubrik Co-founder), T.R. Vishwanath (Microsoft, Meta), Piyush Prahladka (Google, Uber), and Tony Gentilcore (Google), Glean provides a Work AI platform designed to connect and understand enterprise data, generate answers, and automate work grounded in company knowledge. Leveraging its search and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) technology, Glean’s AI assistant delivers personalized answers based on an enterprise knowledge graph, helping organizations streamline operations and improve productivity.
Glean also introduced new prompting features to automate complex workflows, enhancing AI adoption for enterprises, alongside new integrations for platforms such as Zendesk and Salesforce Service Cloud.
About the Company: Glean’s AI-powered platform serves a wide range of industries, with customers including Reddit, Instacart, Pinterest, Duolingo, Databricks, BILL, Samsara, Grammarly, and major enterprises in telecommunications, banking, retail, semiconductors, electronics, and manufacturing.