# Kushal Byatnal

> Kushal Byatnal is the co-founder and CEO of Extend, a New York company building a full-stack cloud for document processing. Extend turns messy PDFs, images, and emails into production-ready structured data using vision models, large language models, and human-in-the-loop tooling, and is used by teams at Brex, Chime, Flatiron Health, Opendoor, and Checkr. A two-time technical founder and Duke computer science graduate, Byatnal was an early engineer at Brex and co-founded the creator fintech Stir before starting Extend in 2023. In June 2025 the company raised $17 million led by Innovation Endeavors.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Extend
- **Organizations:** Extend, Stir, Brex, Google, Amazon Robotics, Y Combinator
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. in Computer Science, Duke University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Extend, whose platform processes millions of document pages per day., Raised $17 million in seed and Series A funding led by Innovation Endeavors, with Y Combinator, Homebrew, and Character participating., Signed customers including Brex, Chime, Flatiron Health, Opendoor, Checkr, Square, Vendr, and Tesorio.

## Career timeline

- **2013-2017** — Studied computer science at Duke University; interned at Amazon Robotics applying computer vision in fulfillment centers.
- **2017** — Software engineer at Google, working on NLP and query understanding.
- **2018** — Joined Brex as an early engineer, building internal tooling for support and operations.
- **2020** — Co-founded Stir, a creator fintech company that grew to hundreds of millions in payment volume.
- **2023** — Co-founded Extend with Eli Badgio; joined Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch.
- **2025** — Launched Parse 2.0 and open-sourced Extend UI; raised $17M led by Innovation Endeavors to build the document processing cloud.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Extend, whose platform processes millions of document pages per day.
- Raised $17 million in seed and Series A funding led by Innovation Endeavors, with Y Combinator, Homebrew, and Character participating.
- Signed customers including Brex, Chime, Flatiron Health, Opendoor, Checkr, Square, Vendr, and Tesorio.
- Shipped Parse 2.0, described as the most accurate document parsing API in the world.
- Open-sourced Extend UI, an MIT-licensed set of components for building document agents.
- Previously co-founded Stir, a creator fintech that reached hundreds of millions in payment volume.
- Attracted angel investment from Scott Belsky (former Adobe CSO) and Guillermo Rauch (Vercel CEO).

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Extend raised $17 million led by Innovation Endeavors to build the document processing cloud.
- **2025** — Launched Parse 2.0, positioned as the most accurate document parsing API in the world.
- **2025** — Open-sourced Extend UI, 14 MIT-licensed components for document agents including PDF/DOCX/XLSX viewers and bounding-box citations.

## Links

- Website: https://extend.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushal-byatnal-92a33085/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/kushalbyatnal

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Last updated: 2026-07-15