Glean Positions as Enterprise 'Intelligence Layer'
Enterprise search company Glean is aggressively positioning itself as the "intelligence layer" for enterprise AI, aiming to unify search, chat, and agentic automation. The company's strategy reflects a market-wide race to build workflow-integrated and auditable agentic systems at scale. This move places it in direct competition with rivals like Hebbia and Cohere to provide the core orchestration for enterprise clients.
- Glean's founder and CEO, Arvind Jain, previously co-founded the data management company Rubrik and was a distinguished engineer at Google for over a decade, where he worked on search, maps, and YouTube. - The company has raised a total of $765 million over six funding rounds, reaching a valuation of $7.2 billion after its $150 million Series F in June 2025. Key investors include Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and General Catalyst. - In February 2025, Glean reported reaching $100 million in annual recurring revenue. - Competitor Hebbia, founded in 2020 by Stanford PhD student George Sivulka, focuses on AI tools for financial and legal research and has raised over $160 million. Its investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and Peter Thiel. - Competitor Cohere, founded by former Google Brain researchers, specializes in large language models for enterprise use and has raised nearly $1.5 billion, reaching a valuation of approximately $7 billion by mid-2025. Its backers include NVIDIA, Oracle, and Salesforce. - Glean's platform connects with over 100 enterprise applications, including Slack, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365, to create a unified search experience that respects existing data permissions. - The shift to "agentic AI" involves moving beyond providing answers to autonomously executing multi-step tasks and workflows based on a user's intent. Glean's agent platform became generally available in May 2025, allowing employees to build workflow automations. - In September 2025, Glean introduced a third-generation version of its AI assistant and a new "Enterprise Graph" feature focused on personalization and more complex task execution.
