What Glint does

Glint, operating under the Microsoft-owned brand Viva Glint, is an enterprise employee engagement and feedback platform founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company was acquired by Microsoft and subsequently integrated into the Microsoft Viva employee experience suite, where it provides survey-based listening programs for large organizations, including pulse surveys, performance reviews, and 360-degree feedback mechanisms. HR teams and senior leaders are the primary users, and the platform is distributed globally through Microsoft's enterprise field sales motion targeting enterprise tenants; operational leadership exists in EMEA and APAC.

The platform's core technical capability is Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Glint, a generative AI feature that became generally available in November 2024. The feature ingests natural language survey comments and produces text summaries of up to 8,000 comments on a chosen theme within seconds, with drill-down prompts for further analysis. Microsoft's published engagement metric of 86% active usage among enabled tenants within five months, alongside month-to-month retention gains among active Copilot users, signals strong early adoption at enterprise scale.

As a wholly-owned Microsoft subsidiary operating with 101-250 employees, Glint is monetized through Microsoft's enterprise SaaS distribution within the Microsoft Viva suite; specific pricing for the Glint SKU is not publicly disclosed. The product line is positioned horizontally across HR-led use cases inside large enterprises, leveraging the parent company's enterprise sales reach, Microsoft 365 data integration, and Copilot infrastructure rather than operating as an independent engagement vendor.

Name

Glint

Legal name

Glint Inc.

Website

https://glintinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Glint, operating as Viva Glint under Microsoft, is an enterprise employee engagement platform delivering survey-based listening programs and AI-powered comment summarization via Microsoft 365 Copilot to HR and senior leaders at large organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Redwood City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Glint (now Viva Glint) provides an enterprise employee engagement and feedback platform that runs survey-based listening programs such as pulse surveys, performance reviews, and 360-degree feedback. It is sold as part of Microsoft Viva and is augmented by Microsoft 365 Copilot, which uses generative AI to summarize up to 8,000 employee comments on a chosen theme within seconds, enabling HR teams and senior leaders to interpret and act on workforce feedback at scale.

Product overview

Glint is an employee engagement platform that was acquired by Microsoft and integrated into the Microsoft Viva suite under the product name Viva Glint. The offering consists of a core employee engagement platform that provides survey-based listening programs, feedback analysis, and actionable insights into employee sentiment. The primary AI-powered addition is Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Glint, which uses generative AI to summarize survey comments and enable faster analysis of employee feedback at scale.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Copilot in Viva Glint: AI-powered feature within Viva Glint that enables leaders to understand and act on employee feedback by quickly summarizing large quantities of comments.

Products and services

• Viva Glint

Quantifiable outcome

• 86% active usage rate among enabled tenants within five months
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Culture Amp: Culture Amp is an employee engagement and performance management platform offering engagement surveys, pulse surveys, and 360 feedback with sentiment analysis; it overlaps directly with Viva Glint's core listening programs in mid-market and enterprise HR.
• 15Five: 15Five is an employee engagement and performance platform combining weekly check-ins, pulse surveys, and manager feedback tools. It competes with Viva Glint in the same HR feedback category for mid-market and enterprise buyers.
• Qualtrics Employee Experience: Qualtrics' employee experience product is an employee engagement and feedback platform that competes with Glint across pulse surveys, 360 reviews, and AI-driven text analytics, and is generally regarded as a primary direct competitor in large-enterprise employee listening.
• Lattice: Lattice provides performance management and employee engagement tools (engagement surveys and eNPS) for HR teams. Its engagement module competes with Viva Glint in the same enterprise HR buyer motion.
• Officevibe: Officevibe is a SurveyMonkey-owned employee engagement and pulse-survey tool aimed at managers and HR teams. It competes with Viva Glint's pulse survey and engagement analytics workflows, particularly for SMB and mid-market.
• Workday Peakon: Workday Peakon is the employee engagement/feedback platform acquired by Workday and integrated into the Workday HCM suite. It competes head-to-head with Viva Glint in enterprise pulse surveys, sentiment analysis, and AI-powered commentary summarization.
• Perceptyx: Perceptyx is an employee listening and analytics platform providing engagement surveys, pulse surveys, and AI-driven text analytics for large enterprises, putting it in direct competition with Viva Glint in the enterprise employee listening space.

Emerging players

• Medallia: Medallia is a customer and employee experience analytics platform that overlaps with Viva Glint's text/sentiment analytics capabilities; its employee experience module offers partial overlap with Viva Glint's feedback analysis functionality.

Broad incumbents

• Workday: Workday is a broad HR/HCM incumbent that owns Peakon and competes with the broader Microsoft Viva + Viva Glint bundle in enterprise HR. Comparable as a broader incumbent offering overlapping employee engagement capability inside a wider HR suite.
• SAP SuccessFactors: SAP SuccessFactors is an enterprise HCM suite with employee engagement and continuous performance management modules. Comparable as a broad incumbent that competes with the Viva + Viva Glint bundle for the same enterprise HR buyer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/glintinc
• Facebookfacebook.com/glintinc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors5 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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