After years of essentially being the only player in the category, the seven-year-old startup is accelerating its growth as tech giants enter the enterprise AI search market with rival products.
This is a counter-intuitive growth pattern: Glean is accelerating as the market gets more competitive, not slowing. The arrival of Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI may be legitimizing the category faster than it's cannibalizing Glean's share — a dynamic where incumbents create demand that the specialist captures.