AI startup funding still white-hot the search startup glee announcing a new funding round that doubles its valuation

that's just in six months. Durjibosa spoke exclusively to the CEO and that is the subject of today's Tech Check D.

Hey good morning David so as companies and investors they're looking for returns on AI

investments to figure out if this is all worth the cost. Investors believe that Glean could be an

answer in an increasingly crowded market for enterprise generative AI. Its latest

round includes new investors like DST Global Soft Bank's Vision Fund 2

as well as previous ones like IVP, Light Speed, and Sequoia,

some of whom are here at Goldman Sachs Communicopia in San Francisco this week.

Now Glean's AI-powered search software, it sits inside of corporations, like a chatbot trained

on data across the organization leading to increased productivity.

I spoke exclusively to its founder and CEO Arvin Jane on the heels of his latest round and I asked him

when investors will actually see AI show up on balance sheets and quarterly earnings.

I would say that like in a lot of AI gains are going to be more towards like you know

it's going to help you know companies build better products faster products like

you know improve that you know top line and we should see this like next year like if you

don't see it next year then something is really wrong.

So next year look for it now other enterprise AI products though they have

underwhelmed customers like

Microsoft's co-pilot as our Steve Kovac has reported. Jane says that the glean

difference is that they have been at it for almost six years and their Gen- AI

native still well capitalized other

Gen AI native competitors they're raising money and building enterprise

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