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| Glean Technologies, Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
| Industry | Artificial Intelligence |
| Founded | 2019 |
| Founder | Arvind Jain, Piyush Prahladka, Tony Gentilcore, T.R. Vishwanath[1] |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California |
Number of employees | 1,000[2] |
| Website | glean |
Glean Technologies, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI) and search capabilities.[3][4]
As of 2025, it had a valuation of $7.2 billion.[5]
The company was founded in 2019 in Palo Alto, California.[6]
In September 2021, Glean introduced its assistive search tool, designed to pull together information from dozens of disparate applications, streamlining access to critical data across various platforms, to the market.[6][7]
In February 2025, the company reported reaching $100 million in annual recurring revenue.[8]
Glean reported reaching $200 million in annual recurring revenue in December 2025, doubling its ARR in nine months.[9]
At that time, the company also announced its agent platform, designed to automate workplace tasks beyond search. The platform became generally available in May 2025.[10]
In September 2025, Glean introduced a third-generation Glean Assistant and an Enterprise Graph focused on personalization and multi-step task execution.[11][12]
It was named CNBC's top 50 disruptor in 2025.[13]
Glean announced its plans in April 2026 to open an office in Nashville, Tennessee, for its corporate sales division. The office was expected to employ 65 people initially, with the company planning to add 35 additional positions by the end of the year.[14]
By 2026, Glean shifted its focus from enterprise search toward connecting AI models with enterprise systems and data.[15]
In March 2019, shortly after its establishment, Glean raised $15 million in Series A funding co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed, which included participation from the Slack Fund.[16][17][18] In March 2021, the company closed a Series B funding round of $40M led by General Catalyst.[19][20]
In May 2022, the company secured a $100M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $1B valuation and hit the Unicorn status.[21][22] In February 2024, Glean raised over $200 million in Series D funding at a $2.2B valuation.[23]
In September 2024, Glean raised over $260 million in Series E funding, co-led by Altimeter Capital and DST Global,[24][25] taking its valuation to $4.6 billion.[26]
In June 2025, Glean raised $150 million in Series F financing led by Wellington Management at a $7.2 billion valuation.[27][28]
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Glean Technologies, Inc. is an American technology company specializing in enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI) and search capabilities. As of 2025, it had a valuation of $7.2 billion.
Gleaning is a post-harvest agricultural process. Glean may also refer to: Gleaning (birds), a feeding process in birds similar to the agricultural process Glean (album), a 2015 album by They Might Be Giants Glean, a 2004 album by Echobrain Carlyle Glean (born 1932), Grenadian politician Marion Patrick Jones (1934–2016), Trinidadian novelist also known as Marion Glean Glean Technologies, American technology company
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, LLC, commonly known as Kleiner Perkins or KP, is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has supported America Online, Amazon.com, Tandem Computers, Compaq, Electronic Arts, JD.com, Square, Genentech, Google, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Nest, Palo Alto Networks, Synack, Snap, AppDynamics, Twitter, Applied Intuition, Anthropic, Waymo, Glean Technologies, OpenEvidence, Rippling, Harvey & Together AI. By 2024, it had raised 21 venture capital funds and six growth funds. In 2026, the firm announce its twenty-second venture fund, KP22, a $1 billion fund to back early-stage companies, and $2.5 billion in growth funds to back businesses. Kleiner Perkins is headquartered in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley, with offices in San Francisco and Shanghai, China.
TipTop Technologies is a real-time web and social search engine with a platform for semantic analysis of natural language. Tip-Top Search provides results capturing individual and group sentiment, opinions, and experiences there from the content of various sorts such as real-time messages from Twitter or consumer product reviews on Amazon.com. TipTop Technologies and ITC Infotech collaborated to create a search interface suitable for both enterprise and consumer applications. Tip-Top's products are part of the "emerging Web 3.0 applications which use semantic technologies to augment the underlying Web system's functionalities." Their main product is 360, an AI tool that incorporates multiple AI applications under one wing. Jonathan AlBright professor at Elon University, found videos generated by TipTop Technologies software on YouTube in his research into artificial intelligence, described it as AI-generated "fake news". Through semantic analysis of large data sets, TipTop gleaned behavioral insights from Tweets around events like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Holiday Gifting, the Super Bowl, and the Oscar Nominees for the Academy Awards coverage. Sentiment analysis, concept trend tracking, and real-time market research are other applications included in the TipTop Search product. TipTop's insight engine solves the problem of real-time data noise, and its ability to "sort the 'good tweets' from the 'bad tweets' when it comes to a product, service, or a region..." In addition, products like TipTop Shopping with customizable search widgets bring together consumer reviews, social search, and sentiment analysis enabling product comparisons across attributes like the overall value and aiding purchasing decisions through user-driven product tips and pits. TipTop Finance adds another complexity to real-time search results by incorporating corporate sentiment, company stock tickers, and social media into TipTop's existing social search platform. Additional success applying semantic technologies has been with polling, "if you compare these Gallup results with TipTop, a sentiment engine based on Twitter, the results are not way off. It does surprise you but it tells me that sentiment analysis in case of public opinion about a burning social issue or a famous personality is relatively easier." With the increasing amount of unstructured, opinion-oriented, and user-generated content available on the Web, TipTop's technology aims to make sense of all this data, and deliver it in a useful way for consumer and enterprise users alike. TipTop Technologies is a privately held company with its headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area, and team members are located globally.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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