Gloo Holdings, Inc. ($GLOO)
Earnings Call Transcript · June 8, 2026
Highlights from the call
In Gloo Holdings' fiscal first quarter 2026 earnings call, the company reported revenue of $41.5 million, a remarkable 238% increase year-over-year and 13% above guidance. Adjusted EBITDA improved sequentially by over $7 million to a loss of $11.5 million, indicating ongoing operational improvements. Management raised full-year revenue guidance by $5 million to $195 million, signaling strong demand and effective execution of their strategic initiatives.
Main topics
- Revenue Growth Acceleration: Gloo's revenue reached $41.5 million, growing 238% year-over-year and 13% above guidance. CEO Scott Beck stated, "Q1 was another strong quarter for Gloo. We exceeded our guidance and street consensus on both revenue and adjusted EBITDA."
- Adjusted EBITDA Improvement: Adjusted EBITDA loss narrowed to $11.5 million, a significant sequential improvement of over $7 million. Beck noted, "This represented our third consecutive quarter of sequential adjusted EBITDA improvement."
- Strategic Customer Wins: Gloo secured five new customers with annual contracts exceeding $1 million, reflecting growing traction in the faith and flourishing ecosystem. Beck highlighted, "These larger strategic wins show growing traction across both existing and new segments of the faith and flourishing ecosystem."
- Acquisition Strategy: The company announced the acquisition of EMD and increased its ownership in Midwestern to 100%. Beck stated, "These acquisitions strengthened the platform, expand customer value and reinforce the flywheel that we're building."
- AI Integration: Management emphasized the importance of applied AI in their offerings, with Gloo AI Studios launched to enhance developer capabilities. Beck mentioned, "Applied AI has become an increasingly important capability of the platform."
Key metrics mentioned
- Revenue: $41.5 million (vs $36.7 million est, +238% YoY)
- Adjusted EBITDA: ($11.5 million) (improved from ($18.6 million) in Q4 2025)
- Full Year Revenue Guidance: $195 million (raised from $190 million)
- Q2 Revenue Guidance: $44 million (vs $39 million est)
- Q2 Adjusted EBITDA Guidance: ($8.5 million) (narrowed from ($11 million))
- Platform Revenue: $24.1 million (up 19.9% sequentially)
Gloo Holdings' strong Q1 results and raised guidance reflect robust demand and effective execution of its strategic initiatives. The company's focus on AI integration and acquisitions positions it well for future growth, but investors should monitor the sustainability of margins and the successful integration of new acquisitions as potential risks.
Earnings Call Speaker Segments
Operator
OperatorThank you for standing by, and welcome to Gloo's Fiscal First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the call over to Oliver Roll, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. Please go ahead.
Oliver Roll
ExecutivesThank you, operator, and thank you to all of you for joining our fiscal first quarter earnings conference call. We will be discussing Gloo's performance for the first quarter ended April 30, 2026, as well as providing guidance for our Q2 and full year 2026. Joining me on today's call are CEO and Co-Founder, Scott Beck; and CFO, Paul Seamon. Our Executive Board Chair and Head of Technology, Pat Gelsinger, will also join the Q&A session. Before we begin, please be reminded that this call will contain forward-looking statements, including statements related to our business, future growth, strategic initiatives, key priorities and our financial outlook for Q2 and fiscal year 2026. These statements are based on Gloo's current expectations but are subject to risks and uncertainties relating to future events and/or the future financial performance of Gloo. Gloo assumes no obligation to update or revise them, whether as a result of new developments or otherwise. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements. A discussion of some of the risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from our forward-looking statements can be found in today's press release and are disclosed under the caption Risk Factors and elsewhere in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026. Our SEC filings are also available on Gloo's Investor Relations website at investors.gloo.com and the SEC's website. In addition, during today's call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA. We use non-GAAP measures in some of our financial discussions as we believe they provide valuable insights on our operational performance and underlying operating results. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for or in isolation from our GAAP results. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP metrics to the most directly comparable GAAP metrics as well as the definitions of each measure, by limitations and our rationale for using them are included in today's press release and will be included in our Form 10-Q to be filed for the quarter ended April 30, 2026. And now I'll turn the call over to Scott.
Scott Beck
ExecutivesThanks, Oliver, and thank you for joining our 2026 first quarter Earnings call. Q1 was another strong quarter for Gloo. We exceeded our guidance and street consensus on both revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Revenue came in at $41.5 million, growing 3x over the prior year. This was also 13% above guidance and street consensus. Adjusted EBITDA was negative $11.5 million, also ahead of guidance and street consensus and representing more than a $7 million sequential improvement from Q4 2025. This represented our third consecutive quarter of sequential adjusted EBITDA improvement. This progress reinforces our confidence in delivering against our adjusted EBITDA profitability goals with adjusted EBITDA expected to approach breakeven in Q3 of 2026 and reached profitability in Q4 2026. Our Q1 results demonstrated that our strategy is working. We're seeing growing demand from large strategic customers, our current acquisitions are delivering compounding value and AI is becoming an increasingly important accelerator across the business. Before turning to the specific drivers for the quarter, I want to connect our results to the broader opportunity. Gloo is building the leading technology platform for the faith and flourishing ecosystem with applied AI becoming a defining capability across the platform. This is a large, durable and highly fragmented ecosystem, spanning education, social impact, bible translation, churches and the denominations that serve them. Donations remain the economic engine of the ecosystem, funding the mission-driven work of faith and flourishing organizations. In 2025, revenues for faith-based organizations grew 8.2% to more than $265 billion, underscoring both the scale of the opportunity and the importance of donor development. Across these segments, organizations consistently need 2 things. They need to modernize technology and they need to expand marketing reach to attract more donors and more constituents. That is how we have organized the Gloo platform, powering technology and powering reach. Applied AI has become an increasingly important capability of the platform. Our powering technology business is designed to take over the customers' technology operations, modernize them and then apply Agentic AI to deliver significantly better outcomes at lower cost for our customers while creating higher margins and durable revenue streams for Gloo. With powering reach, applied AI helps customers better understand their audiences, personalized engagement and strengthen donor development. That combination is what makes Gloo distinct. We are not simply providing software or services we are bringing applied AI into the workflows that matter most to the organizations that we serve. We can do this because Gloo has earned a position of trust within the faith and flourishing ecosystem. Over decades, we have built the relationships and credibility needed to come leaders, understand their most important workflows and apply AI in ways that are practical and mission aligned. In Q1, we saw strong momentum across the platform. On the powering reach side, Masterworks, Barna and Westfall delivered 1 of their best revenue quarters ever. That performance demonstrates the value of combining donor engagement with media, research and the fundraising capabilities all on 1 platform. On the powering technology side, customers are increasingly selecting Gloo to take over, modernize and transform core technology operations through offerings like Gloo 360. In Q1, that momentum showed up in larger strategic wins, including 5 new customers contributing more than $1 million in annual contract revenue. These larger strategic wins show growing traction across both existing and new segments of the faith and flourishing ecosystem. Assemblies of God is a strong example of a denomination choosing Gloo. They are leveraging Gloo 360 across their enterprise by modernizing legacy systems to better serve their 13,000 churches within the United States. Indiana Wesleyan University is another important example. We're partnering with Wesley Seminary at IWU to build VIA Journeys, an AI-powered Ministry lifecycle ecosystem that connects ministry leaders, with personalized resources and mentors. We believe this points to a broader transformation in how universities will equip students and the communities where they lead. For example, our work with Jessup University announced earlier this year is progressing extremely well and running ahead of schedule. Beyond the customer examples, we continue to build broader ecosystem momentum around applied AI. Our 2026 4th annual Gloo hackathon will bring together more than 700 developers, engineers and mission-driven builders in Boulder this October for 48 hours of hacking and building mission-aligned apps and technology. This quarter, we announced the general availability of Gloo AI Studios, a comprehensive set of AI tools and capabilities for developers in the faith and flourishing ecosystem. This release includes support for over 80 LLM models. It includes new safety capabilities, varied subscription options to pay for token usage and a free sandbox for developers to experience our values-aligned guardrails. The goal is to accelerate practical AI solutions that advance human flourishing. Moving now to acquisitions, which remain a key part of how we're strengthening the Gloo platform. Our strategy is to add best-in-class providers that expand our ability to power tech and to power reach. Q1 provided strong evidence that, that strategy is working. Westfall Group and Masterworks both delivered 1 of their best quarters ever. That validates the strength of those businesses and the compounding value of bringing them on to the Gloo platform. During Q1, we signed a purchase agreement to acquire EMD, which we closed at the beginning of Q2. EMD expands our powering technology portfolio with Workday consulting, implementation and support capabilities for not-for-profit small and mid-market organizations. EMD also aligns directly with our broader strategy that I mentioned earlier. We take on and modernize critical customer workflows, then apply specialized engineering talent and Agentic AI to deliver them better outcomes at a lower cost. Over time, this creates a strong customer value proposition while also improving Gloo's margin profile. Today, we're also announcing the acquisition of the remaining stake in Midwestern, bringing our ownership to 100%. Midwestern increases our investment in the cost-effective global talent capability area. We believe this will continue to be a significant growth opportunity as we combine lower cost delivery capabilities with Agentic AI. This also eliminates the call option which will result in a onetime improvement by removing the associated $12.1 million liability from Gloo's balance sheet. Together, these acquisitions strengthened the platform, expand customer value and reinforce the flywheel that we're building. Our approach with acquisitions is always disciplined. We continue to see a strong pipeline but we will only pursue opportunities that are best-in-class, strategically aligned and accretive to the Gloo platform. Even though we have a strong pipeline, as we previously stated, our current plan does not depend on additional acquisitions to achieve our revenue or adjusted EBITDA profitability guidance. As we look ahead, our priorities remain clear. We're focused on deepening strategic customer relationships, scaling our platform and applying AI in ways that improve outcomes for our customers while creating durable value for Gloo. At the same time, we will keep integrating acquisitions with discipline and executing against our path to profitability. Q1 was a strong start of the year. We remain confident in our strategy, our 2026 plan and the long-term opportunity to build the category defining technology platform for the faith and flourishing ecosystem. Paul, I'll turn it over to you to walk through the numbers in more detail.
Paul Seamon
ExecutivesThank you, Scott. We delivered strong first quarter results with both revenue and adjusted EBITDA beating guidance. This performance reflects solid business momentum and disciplined execution, giving us a solid financial start to the year. Q1 revenue was $41.5 million, an increase of 238% compared to the same period last year and 23.5% sequential growth compared to Q4. Year-over-year revenue growth was driven by momentum in several business lines, most notably Gloo 360 as well as the acquisitions of Capital Partner businesses such as Masterworks and Midwestern. Platform revenue totaled $24.1 million, an increase of $15.6 million from Q1 of last year and up 19.9% over Q4 2025. Platform Solutions revenue was $17.4 million, up $13.6 million from the same period in 2025 and about 29% sequentially. Cost of revenue in the quarter was 67.7% of total revenue, an improvement from 72.1% in the prior year period. That increase was driven by improvements in margins at our workspace and outreach business lines as well as a full quarter of Westfall Group. We expect improvement to continue through the year. Adjusted EBITDA improved $7.1 million sequentially to negative $11.5 million. The significant improvement reflects the impact of our cost-saving actions implemented in Q4, along with the growth I already mentioned. In particular, our operating expenses decreased $8.4 million sequentially, while revenue grew 24%. Also note that general and administrative expenses include acquisition costs related to the EMD acquisition, which closed in the second quarter. We do not adjust for these costs in our non-GAAP results. We expect continued sequential improvement in Q2 as we aim to achieve adjusted EBITDA profitability in Q4. As Scott described earlier, we recently agreed to purchase the remaining 20% of Midwestern that we did not previously own as well as eliminate the call option permitting the holder of the remaining 20% from reacquiring a controlling interest in Midwestern from us. We anticipate closing on the transaction later this quarter. The elimination of the call option will result in no longer having large swings in the financial statement reporting line titled gain or loss from change in fair value of financial instruments. As of April 30, 2026, we had $33 million of cash and cash equivalents. We believe that we have the liquidity to reach positive adjusted EBITDA in Q4, which we expect will put us on the path of sustainable, positive free cash flow growth in future quarters. With significant momentum across the business, we also believe we have multiple options to further strengthen the balance sheet, fund our growth and support future acquisition opportunities should we choose to pursue them. I'd like to now turn to our full year 2026 and Q2 outlook. For full year 2026 revenue, we're increasing our outlook $5 million to $195 million. In the second quarter, we expect revenue to be $44 million and adjusted EBITDA loss to narrow to a negative $8.5 million. We continue to expect adjusted EBITDA to approach breakeven in Q3 2026 and reach profitability in Q4 2026. For Q2, we expect a weighted average share count of approximately 81 million shares. With that, I'll turn this call back to Scott.
Scott Beck
ExecutivesThanks, Paul. With that, operator, we're ready to take the first question.
Operator
Operator[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Dan Kurnos of Benchmark.
Daniel Kurnos
AnalystsYes. Great. Scott, Paul, congrats on another great quarter. I guess first question, the revenue cadence implies a bit of a reacceleration in the back half, not to say that the growth hasn't been impressive. And I just want to get a sense from you guys, I know you said in the last call, starting to see larger customer wins, you flagged the $5 million annualized contracts this quarter. How much line of sight do you have into stuff like that? And how much is coming from, let's call it, the -- more recently acquired business? And has that mix changed since the April guidance?
Scott Beck
ExecutivesYes, thanks. Good to hear from you, Dan. We definitely have been able to have continued acceleration. I wouldn't say that it is accelerating any different than it has been. We've been super pleased with the growth. And the growth has been a combination of scaling some of the core Gloo offerings like 360 Gloo Blue AI. At the same time, we've also been able to continue to scale and get synergies across the different capital partners that we've acquired over the years as well. We've been able to drive really strong organic growth in our core offerings as well as really strong organic growth in the offerings from the different capital partners. One of the great things that we're excited about is being able to see the synergies that are taking place in the cross-sell. More and more of the organizations that we're serving, they have 1 offering. But when we see them get to that second offering, we see a significant step up, almost 2 times the revenue. When they get just 3 or more offerings, we've now been seeing that to be closer to some of that 5 to 10x the volume of what just a single offering should be. So it's really a combination of the 2. And overall, we're seeing more than 30% sort of coming from a lot of these organic growth and the organic growth of the new acquisitions.
Daniel Kurnos
AnalystsAnd Scott, that's a great segue into kind of my next question. I'm just trying to understand like when you talk about land and expand, right, and you just kind of outlined the way that you guys attack that. And I just want to get a sense from you, when you win 1 of these larger contracts, are they taking multiples at once? As you dip the toe in the water, and then all of a sudden, you think that, that contract can be 10x over time? I just want to get a sense from you how much -- we know that this is a massive TAM and you guys are the undisputed leader with really no competition out there, but I'm just trying to get a sense of how quickly some of these major deals can expand because you guys have had a lot of very early success even earlier than I think most of us anticipated.
Patrick Gelsinger
ExecutivesYes. Thanks, Dan. This is Pat. And I'll just say that as we, I think, noted in the formal comments, 30% of our customers' over $1 million now or more than one, which means the large majority are only one. And typically, a sale will be a single product area that we then expand 1 or 2 quarters later over time. But most of them start with one, right, in some of our sales strategies to keep things simpler and moving forward. But I will say we have had a couple that we've landed more than 1 product area at the same time for them. And I expect that, that will become a larger aspect of our sales motion as each of the sales offerings becomes more mature. We have more customers and the land, expand, and then we'll be able to land, expand, expand over time. But so far, it's mostly on landing in a quarter, and then we're following it with a subsequent offer later in time.
Daniel Kurnos
AnalystsGot it. That's super helpful. And I mean you're already putting up the numbers. So excited to see what you guys do you next.
Operator
OperatorOur next question comes from the line of Richard Baldry of ROTH Capital.
Richard Baldry
AnalystsWhen we look from Q4 to Q1, the revenue increase had about a 70% gross margin contribution in the quarter. I'm sort of curious if you can look into that and talk about how much would be because of the organic growth and how much might have been sort of cost realignment because that's -- it's 2x where your normal gross margins are sitting today. I'm sort of curious how sustainable that sort of drop down could be as we move forward?
Scott Beck
ExecutivesYes. Great question, Rich. Thanks for chiming in. I think there's a balance between the 2 in the quarter. We definitely got some significant benefit from overall reduction in our operating expenses, you saw that flow through in terms of contribution to adjusted EBITDA which was obviously very significant relative to the revenue increase. But I would say that you've got somewhere between 50% and 60% of that probably came from the operating expense and the remainder came from just continuing to get leverage across the cost basis associated with what you would think of as the cost of goods sold or a contribution margin.
Richard Baldry
AnalystsThen you're still early in some of the larger deals on the Gloo 360 side. But I'm curious, as those are under your umbrella a little bit longer, are you seeing incremental head count synergies? Are you starting to see early cross-selling or upselling opportunities? How are the earlier large deals playing out?
Patrick Gelsinger
ExecutivesYes. And every 1 of them is causing us to just get more mature, Rich. This is Pat again, where we're getting more proof points of different offerings. As we get more and more customers, hey, we already have some level of expertise on some of the tools that we're picking up from them. We already have more maturity and some of the Agentic workflows that we're applying to them. And of course, our HR systems are getting more mature of being able to bring them in, onboard them and make the best application of good HR disciplines for those as well. So I'll say every 1 of these is making us better. We still, I'd say, are not fully mature in those offerings, because several of them are ones that we're still picking up and learning. So I think we still have a lot of margin improvement to get, as well as rapidity of the motions and the ability to onboard and then to be able to commercialize. But the good aspect of this is, is that every 1 of those that we do, we're now creating the Agentic workflows that the next 1 is just easier and faster. So we just see this as an engine that we're going to be able to rinse and repeat over and over again and each 1 of those is showing more maturity in the offering. So a long way to go. The ecosystem is large, but we're now having more and more proven capabilities that can be applied against them.
Richard Baldry
AnalystsIf I can squeeze 1 last 1 in. When you look at the 5 deals over $1 million, can you talk about -- are there any commonalities across those? Or are there multiple entry points, you can do those in now so we could sort of see how extensible that is going forward?
Patrick Gelsinger
ExecutivesYes. And maybe, Scott, you can add as well. But we are starting to see a lot more pipeline in the university segment in particular, which is 1 that we've highlighted, William Jessup was as our first major example. We're now closing more of those offerings. So that's an area that, as you said, there's over 900 faith-based universities in the U.S. So we have a long path to go. We're clearly a critical mass in some sectors, such as bible translation, campus ministry and other areas like rescue mission is an area that our work that we have specifically on reach as well proven. So there's a lot more opportunities there. And then finally, I think as we noted in our formal comments, we have had -- started to have some success in the Catholic segment, which is a very large space for us that we're just getting started. So I think more replicable big opportunities that we see the land, expand, expand just as enormous pathway in front of us. Scott, anything else you would add?
Scott Beck
ExecutivesYes. Thanks, Pat. I really like what you point there in terms of land, expand and expand because we're landing and expanding within a specific count, but when we find ourselves into a category like campus ministry or a category like faith-based universities or rescue mission. When we find ourselves getting into a different segment, that segment also has the dynamic of expand as well. And so we've got really the power of landing and expanding within an account and expanding again within a category, and we've been adding categories extremely quickly, really very surprising in terms of how quick the categories are expanding. Now 1 of the things I would like to anchors back in is they are looking for the same thing, okay? There's a commonality in terms of, hey, help me power tech, help me get more reach, so I can have more donors, more constituents, more students, more volunteers, you name it, they're really powering tech, powering reach and just being able to then apply AI to be able to give them the lower cost, better benefit and give us an ever-increasing margin as we bring more AI-executed work into the program.
Richard Baldry
AnalystsGot it. Congrats on a great quarter.
Operator
OperatorOur next question comes from the line of Yun Kim of Loop Capital Markets.
Yun Suk Kim
AnalystsCongrats on the strong quarter. So on the EMD business, can you update us on the progress that you have made since the acquisition closed. And for the EMD customers, I know there's some who are not faith-based customers or organizations, do you expect the non faith-based customer base to show growth there? Or is your near-term go-to-market primarily focus on faith-based organizations?
Scott Beck
ExecutivesYes. So as you're aware, they do -- they have both faith-based and non faith-based and we're growing them both. Obviously, we've got some obvious synergies within the faith-based where we can do a lot of cross-selling immediately, but also in the non faith-based, that's on its own growth plan as well. Relatively new, right? It's just closed at the beginning of this quarter, so 5 or 6 weeks in now. But we're liking what we're seeing. Additionally, Midwestern, which we just went to 100% ownership from 80%, those guys have pretty much the same growth plan. They have -- a significant amount of Midwestern is also non faith-based, and pretty much about the same percentage, about 1/3 faith-based and about 2/3 not faith-based. So it's nice to be able to see some of the synergies there between, let's say, a Midwestern and EMD on the non faith-based side. So yes, they're both growing. We're committed to growing them both. And for the last few years of Midwestern, we've grown both sides of it as well.
Yun Suk Kim
AnalystsIs there an opportunity to cross-sell Gloo 360 to the non faith-based -- customers of EMD?
Scott Beck
ExecutivesYes, there are. There's no question that the small to midsized organizations are coming up against the same set of issues, which is, hey, help me with my tech, help with my reach. And that -- those are common concerns, common value propositions, whether they're faith-based or not faith-based organization. And everybody needs help applying AI into their specific organizational workloads. And likewise, when you've got a workflow that helps somebody engage with employees on an ongoing basis, that workflow is the same, whether it's a faith-based or not faith-based workflow. So there's a lot of commonality against that as well.
Yun Suk Kim
AnalystsOkay. Great. And then maybe this question is for Pat, but I know it's very early, but what's been the early feedback on Gloo AI Studio? Was that part of your hackathon at all?
Patrick Gelsinger
ExecutivesYes. And the early feedback is strong. And obviously, as you open a new service like that, there's lots of learnings as developers come on and we're getting more efficient at bringing developers on, bringing the billing systems up and operating for them. And we did have a big customer, Hello Bible that does a consumer chat service move over to Gloo studio. They were public on LinkedIn or 1 of the other social channels about that and the good experience that we're having. So we're now starting to have, I'll say, real customers who are bringing their workloads onto the platform. We also, as a result of Studio, we will have more to talk about as we go through our virtual hackathon events and then our big hackathon in the fall. So they will be very heavily featured and announcements of new capabilities, new services, new customers coming on the platform as part of hackathon, is a big thing when we come up on that in the fall. So overall, we're happy with the momentum that we're seeing, 1,000-plus developers now on platform. But we have to grow this much faster, much larger, and we believe that we now have a mature offering that will enable us to do exactly that.
Yun Suk Kim
AnalystsOkay. Great. Looking forward to it.
Operator
OperatorOur next question comes from the line of Jason Kreyer Craig-Hallum.
Jason Kreyer
AnalystsSo Scott, great to hear the early success with cross-sell here in the first quarter. I wanted to ask just about the go-to-market for cross-selling these new solutions to existing customers. Like if we think about a Westfall or an EMD, how quickly can you get customers interested in the new solutions? How quickly can you get them up and running? And just what that upsell process looks like?
Patrick Gelsinger
ExecutivesYes. And generally, there's a strong effort and our Chief Revenue Officer, Rebecca runs a very aggressive process across the different sales teams to drive exactly that. We're seeing a good effect from that already. And I'll say we're pleasantly surprised how easy it is to get that process underway. So we do see that Westfall Gold with Masterworks 360 into Masterworks accounts swerve into our 360 accounts. These motions are ones that we think have a lot of replicability, a lot of scale. And overall, we're just building more sales capacity. We're bringing sales teams on. We're getting more rigorous in our processes to manage a large account pipelines and then building more cross-sell mechanisms across the portfolio. So we just see ourselves at the beginning of the cycle and every element of the portfolio gives us more opportunity to cross-sell.
Jason Kreyer
AnalystsPerfect. One follow-up just on -- the M&A has continued to expand your addressable market. When you think about the bigger customers that you have today, curious what you think your penetration is into the existing base? And what I'm trying to figure out here, how much runway is there ahead with such a large customer base into a large addressable market?
Patrick Gelsinger
ExecutivesYes. The runway is truly enormous. That's why we somewhat easily talk about TAMs in excess of $100 billion. This is just a large market for it. And when we talk about universities, we now have several closed, 900 to go. And even where we're pretty well penetrated in a few accounts at this point, we're not well penetrated across the portfolio. So we even in our land, expand in an account and have room to grow. So we would consider our effective sum to be in very low percentages at this point and the TAM is enormous. The SAM that's reachable is very large, and we don't see ourselves as anywhere close to saturation on any dimension of the business.
Operator
OperatorOur next question comes from the line of Ryan Meyers of Lake Street Capital Markets.
Ryan Meyers
AnalystsFirst question here. Have you seen any changes in customer budgets or any other major changes across the ecosystem in terms of appetite for more digital offerings?
Scott Beck
ExecutivesYes. Thanks, Ryan. Yes, for sure. I mean, as I said in my prepared remarks, the revenue in this ecosystem grew at 8.2% last year. I mean you think for a very significant, what is an old ecosystem to be able to have that kind of growth is remarkable. And yes, as a result of that, you get more budget out to work with. There's no question that, that kind of growth in the core donations that are funding this ecosystem, definitely allows us to be able to have more dollars to work with. And we feel it. I would say there's another thing, too, and that is that younger people are reengaging at a much bigger and higher number than others in spirituality and faith. That is -- that bodes really well for where we're at in the overall cycle. Because the growth -- if you look at that growth and you were to segment of that, I would imagine that you'll definitely see the younger people have a very significant positive influence on the market, not only in terms of there's more dollars to be worked with, no question. But it's just encouraging, right? Our market is encouraged. They're seeing a lot of opportunity to serve in the community. And when you have younger people starting to show up, that's a very big encouragement to this ecosystem.
Ryan Meyers
AnalystsGot it. And then second question here. You mentioned 30% organic growth, how much of this do you think will come from new customer wins versus new customers expanding their spend?
Scott Beck
ExecutivesYes, it's a 30% plus. I mean we're above that, but we're very comfortable with that continued organic growth. But our big driver is new customers. That is what's really driving our growth in terms of the -- within that organic growth, so much of it is new people that are getting introduced to Gloo 360, Gloo AI, Masterworks, Barna across the board, it is really about attracting new into that and then growing the ones that we currently have. Both are happening, but absolutely, new names is super important. Pat, what would you add to that?
Patrick Gelsinger
ExecutivesNot too much to add. The opportunity for us as we build our sales force is 1 that we just get more and more account coverage over time and we're regularly adding more salespeople to 360 to Masterworks to our Westfall Gold, our -- every 1 of our offerings is getting more sales capacity, and we'll be able to invest more into it. We do not see that there's budget limitations even though we don't really fundamentally view that tighter budgets is a bad thing for us, right? Because fundamentally, they're looking for cost savings, and we also present cost savings to them as well. So we do see ourselves in many respects as not particularly vulnerable to cost issues. But this is a good time for our ecosystem, as Scott has said. It's a good time for our offering. And as we build more capacity to sell and deliver, we do think that we see a very clean line of sight to a rapidly growing revenue customer base and land expand, expand for many quarters to come.
Operator
OperatorOur last question comes from the line of Matthew Harrigan of Benchmark StoneX.
Matthew Harrigan
AnalystsGood to bookend the call. You made a reference at the end of 1 of your answers to getting traction with the Catholics and clearly, you've been focused on evangelicals relative to Catholics or Anglicans. It's interesting, I mean the Catholic Church, I mean, certainly was arguably the most successful hierarchical global organization for a long time. And obviously, it's unique on the educational side, both on the secondary schools and a lot of universities, although they're becoming, I guess, increasingly secularized. If you really get traction on the Catholic side or some of the other denominations where you're not as penetrated, could you hear a pretty fast tipping point where at a higher level, you could have a lot of acceptance of a broad bouquet of products relative to, I think, some denominations you're dealing with or maybe more in the grass roots basis where you get really good word of mouth, but you kind of have to convince a lot of people to get momentum. Congratulations on the results, clearly.
Patrick Gelsinger
ExecutivesYes. Thank you. Well, I think first, I'd say, that we're probably not far enough along to know the repeatability of the sales patterns yet in the Catholic segment. So I'd say we're -- it's a great question for us to come back to in the future quarters as we have more Catholic customers, we see more of the sales motion. That said, given the hierarchical nature that you point to, we think that you actually have very referenceable relationships across them. And as you get success in one, it will be very repeatable across others. So we do -- for that very reason, I think that we will have good sales productivity as we engage. We have also had the most success so far empowering tech in that sector, but we do see that the full range of our offerings could be applicable there at scale. We've also had good affinity for some of the AI opportunities that we uniquely have and gaining more momentum with customers there. So overall, I'd say it's very early for us, but we're super happy because of the size. And when you look at the size of that portion of the marketplace. Archdiocese across the nation are large. They have large technology needs. And as you say, they're structured, organized, and we believe will be very repeatable.
Matthew Harrigan
AnalystsAnd could that extend into the university side as well? Or is that kind of a different animal?
Patrick Gelsinger
ExecutivesNo. No, we do -- we see it as very replicable in the university side. And of the 900 that we've quoted, a little bit sort of 2/3, 1/3, that 2/3 are evangelically oriented and 1/3 Catholic oriented. So -- but we do hope to have several successes in the university side of the Catholic community as well.
Operator
OperatorThank you. I would now like to turn the conference back to Scott Beck for closing remarks. Sir?
Scott Beck
ExecutivesYes. Thanks a lot. I appreciate that. As you can tell in the call, we're super excited about the performance. But we're also really excited about the progress. This faith and flourishing ecosystem needs what Gloo is providing, the technology and the marketing reach. And then all being powered by AI. It is just incredibly good timing for us to be sort of at the point that we're at. But it's still early. We're still early on our journey as a public company, but the momentum is strong and it's growing. We really do have an opportunity to build a category defining technology platform for this ecosystem. And in doing that, 1 of the things that excites us the most is that we can actually be engaged in shaping technology as the ports were good. And if you think about it, the time and the intensity of the technology changes that are taking place right now is 1 of the most consequential period of change in our lifetime. And to be able to be there and to be able to be on the front lines with these organizations is super encouraging to our organization. But as we're doing this, we always have to remember that we're serving those who serve, that's the minister, the campus Ministry, the rescue missions, the world child development organization. The global water organization the faith-based universities, the churches and the denominations that serve them. And in doing that, they're on the front line. And they're out there changing lives for real people. They're changing families, they're changing cities. And as we pursue this all together, we're pursuing it so that we can accomplish the vision that we have. And at the world where every person can flourish and be all that they were born to be. I mean that's what fires us up. That's what gets us out of bed in the morning and gets us pressing so hard. And you all as shareholders, are part of that. You're making a difference in these organizations you're being able to give them access to capabilities and capital that allow them to scale what they love to do and what they're called to do. So we're grateful. We're grateful for the champions that we serve, and we're grateful for the shareholders that are serving on behalf of them with us. So on behalf of all of us, we say thank you. Thanks for tuning in today. God bless you. God bless you and all your efforts and Gloo in its efforts as well. Thank you.
Operator
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