Founder Profile
T.R. Vishwanath
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is T.R. Vishwanath?
T.R. Vishwanath is a founder of Glean, which was founded in 2019 with Arvind Jain, Piyush Prahladka and Tony Gentilcore.
- Company founded
- Glean
- Founded
- 2019
- Co-founders
- Arvind Jain, Piyush Prahladka and Tony Gentilcore
Background
Former Facebook and Google software engineer.
Founding Story
T.R. Vishwanath co-founded Glean in 2019 alongside his former Google colleague Arvind Jain. He was instrumental in building the incredibly complex backend architecture required to securely index and search data across highly disparate enterprise platforms (like Jira, Slack, and Google Drive) without violating strict corporate permissions. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- Glean: Series F at $7.2B valuation (Glean)
- Glean: surpasses $200M ARR (Glean)