Extend

Extend was founded in 2023 by Eli Badgio and Kushal Byatnal, former engineers at Brex and Stir, who recognized that document processing was a persistent bottleneck for modern enterprises. While traditional OCR solutions plateaued at around 80% accuracy and required months of complex integration, the founders envisioned a platform that could leverage the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) to achieve near-perfect results. What started as a mission to 'transform how the world works with unstructured data' has evolved into the 'Modern Document Processing Cloud,' a comprehensive platform that unifies parsing, extraction, and orchestration.

Today, Extend empowers technical teams to build mission-critical document pipelines with greater than 95% accuracy out of the box. By combining state-of-the-art vision models with a developer-first API, the company has become the 'Stripe for documents,' trusted by industry leaders like Brex, Chime, and Flatiron Health to handle their most complex workflows. With $17 million in recent funding from Innovation Endeavors and Y Combinator, Extend is rapidly scaling its engineering team in New York City to further revolutionize how businesses unlock the value of their data.