Extend

Backed byInnovation Endeavors

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Total raised$17.0M
StageSeries A
Hiring pace1 roles / 90d
Founded2018
Team size11-50
HQNew York City, New York
Industries
Software DevelopmentDocument ProcessingAI/MLSaaS

About Extend

The company presents itself as a complete document processing toolkit, focused on parsing, extraction, and splitting with the claim of the most accurate solutions for the hardest use cases in minutes rather than months. Based in New York City, it operates with a six-person team that works fully in-person in the city. The organization emphasizes its mission to enable rapid, reliable document processing for complex needs. Backed by investors including Homebrew, Innovation Endeavors, Character, and angels from OpenAI, Brex, Airbnb, Newfront, and more, it positions itself with a strong market presence and notable support.

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Company at a glance

Location
New York City, New York
Websiteextend.ai
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Founders & Leadership

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Darren Chow

Chief of Staff @ Extend | prev. MrBeast, Monitor Deloitte

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Eli Badgio

Co-founder/CTO at Extend - we’re hiring!

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Kushal Byatnal

Co-founder & CEO @ Extend

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Location

About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Engineering50%
  • Sales & Business Development20%
  • Other Specializations15%
  • Leadership10%
  • Operations5%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.University of California, Berkeley
  2. 2.New York University
  3. 3.Rutgers University
  4. 4.University of Pennsylvania
  5. 5.Cornell University

Team Worked At

  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • Cohere
  • InstaDeep
  • Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI)

Team Composition

19 people
  • Engineering8
  • Entrepreneurship2 senior2
  • Business Development1
  • Education1
  • Leadership1 senior1
  • Operations1
  • Program and Project Management1
  • Research1

Culture & values

The company has a small team of 6.

The company operates fully in-person in NYC.

Funding History

Series AJun 2025

$17M

raised

Extend, an AI document-processing startup, secured a $17 M combined seed and Series A round led by Innovation Endeavors with Y Combinator, Homebrew, Character, and angels Scott Belsky and Guillermo Rauch participating.

Innovation EndeavorsY CombinatorHomebrewCharacter

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