Glean Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025

Palo Alto, CA - March 18, 2025 — Work AI leader Glean today announced it has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025, earning the #1 spot in the Applied AI category and ranking #6 overall among the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies. The honor recognizes Glean’s bold advancements in enterprise AI and its groundbreaking contributions to reshaping how people discover, analyze, and take action on both internal company and external web knowledge, augmenting human potential across the modern workplace.

“AI agents are set to redefine how we work, and we’re proud to be at the forefront of this transformation,” said Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO, Glean. “The latest recognition by Fast Company underscores the trust our customers place in us and the unique impact Glean is making by bringing practical, powerful agents to every corner of the enterprise.”

Glean has introduced a series of groundbreaking innovations that are reshaping the future of work and setting new standards for enterprise AI. At the forefront is the launch of Glean Agents, a horizontal agent environment that empowers any employee or department to build, deploy, and scale AI agents across the organization. Designed to go beyond isolated use cases, Glean Agents combine natural language agent building with a powerful agentic reasoning engine, enabling users to automate complex, multi-step workflows across systems using both enterprise and real-time world knowledge. This leap forward makes it possible for AI to not just assist with tasks, but to truly act as a trusted work partner embedded in the fabric of everyday business operations.

The latest advancements reflect the growing robustness of the Glean platform. With intelligent agents, deep data integrations with over 100+ connector SaaS applications, and strong data and AI governance, Glean helps organizations unlock the full potential of AI at work.

The World’s Most Innovative Companies stands as Fast Company’s hallmark franchise and one of its most anticipated editorial efforts of the year. To determine honorees, Fast Company’s editors and writers review companies driving progress around the world and across industries, evaluating thousands of submissions through a competitive application process. The result is a globe-spanning guide to innovation today, from early-stage startups to some of the most valuable companies in the world. 

“Our list of the Most Innovative Companies offers both a comprehensive look at innovation today and a playbook for the future,” said Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. “This year, we recognize companies that are harnessing AI in deep and meaningful ways, brands that are turning customers into superfans by overdelivering for them, and challengers that are introducing bold ideas and vital competition to their industries. At a time when the world is rapidly shifting, these companies are charting the way forward.” 

The full list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies honorees can now be found at fastcompany.com. It will also be available on newsstands beginning March 25. 

‍Fast Company will host the Most Innovative Companies Summit and Gala for honorees on June 5. The summit features a day of inspiring content, followed by a creative black-tie gala including networking, a seated dinner, and an honoree presentation.

About Glean
Glean is the Work AI platform that connects and understands all your enterprise data, to generate trusted answers and automate work grounded in company knowledge. Using Glean’s powerful search and RAG technology to retrieve the most relevant, up-to-date information, Glean's AI assistant generates highly personalized answers based on your company’s unique enterprise knowledge graph. All answers are secure, private, permissions-aware, and fully referenceable back to source documentation in your enterprise. Glean also empowers users to quickly and securely build multi-step prompts and custom generative AI apps, agents, and assistants that automate everyday workflows. With over 100 connectors, LLM options, and no need for costly professional services, data training, or manual fine-tuning, Glean delivers turnkey implementation of a complex AI ecosystem on one centralized platform. Founded by Arvind Jain (Google Distinguished Engineer, Rubrik Co-founder), T.R. Vishwanath (Microsoft, Meta), Piyush Prahladka (Google, Uber), and Tony Gentilcore (Google), Glean has received funding from Altimeter, Coatue, Craft Ventures, DST Global, General Catalyst, ICONIQ Growth, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and other leading investors.

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