Is Glean publicly traded?

Glean is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.

What products does Glean make?

Glean's products in the TECHi Atlas: Glean.

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Glean

Glean turns a company's scattered apps into one permissions-aware AI search box, with an agent platform on top.

Glean, founded in 2019 in Palo Alto by ex-Google search engineer Arvind Jain, indexes a company's Slack, Drive, Jira, and hundreds of other apps into a knowledge graph that respects each employee's existing permissions, then sells enterprise search, an AI work assistant, and agent-building tools on that index. The formula works commercially: roughly $300M in ARR by mid-2026, up from about $100M a year earlier, and a $150M Series F at a $7.2B valuation. Its structural advantage is neutrality — no suite vendor has an incentive to index its rivals' silos.

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Permission-aware search and AI agents across everything your company already uses.

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Why it matters

Permission-aware retrieval is the genuinely hard part of enterprise AI — an assistant that surfaces the CFO's compensation file to an intern is a fireable product. Glean's bet is that companies won't let Microsoft own that layer just because Copilot ships with the E5 license they already pay for. Tripling ARR while Copilot is bundled essentially for free is evidence the bet is holding, at least among large accounts.

Core moat

Years of connector and permission-model engineering across hundreds of SaaS apps, compounding into an index rivals must rebuild app by app. The moat is the boring integration work, not the models — Glean swaps LLMs freely underneath it.

Risks

Microsoft can bundle a good-enough Copilot into seats it already sells, making Glean the standalone line item a CFO cuts in a budget review. The company has to stay meaningfully better at retrieval than the suite vendors forever, and 'meaningfully better' is hard to prove in a procurement deck.

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Frequently asked about Glean

What does Glean do?: Glean turns a company's scattered apps into one permissions-aware AI search box, with an agent platform on top.
Is Glean publicly traded?: Glean is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.
What products does Glean make?: Glean's products in the TECHi Atlas: Glean.
What is Glean's competitive advantage?: Years of connector and permission-model engineering across hundreds of SaaS apps, compounding into an index rivals must rebuild app by app. The moat is the boring integration work, not the models — Glean swaps LLMs freely underneath it.