# Pulse

> Pulse is a San Francisco AI company building production-grade document extraction for enterprises. Its vision-language models and OCR pipeline turn messy PDFs, scans, and spreadsheets into clean, structured, LLM-ready data - powering RAG, automation, and analytics across finance, healthcare, insurance, legal, and supply chain.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Sid Manchkanti (Co-Founder & CEO), Ritvik Pandey (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** 33
- **Products:** Pulse API, Pulse Studio Vision Model, Custom Schemas, Flexible Deployment
- **Notable:** Processed over 1 billion pages across Fortune 10 enterprises and AI startups, Raised $3.9M seed led by NFDG in February 2025, Trained an in-house vision-language model for documents and spreadsheets

## Products & services

- **Pulse API** — A secure, enterprise-grade API that ingests PDFs, Word, Excel, images, and scans and returns structured JSON ready for LLMs, RAG pipelines, and analytics.
- **Pulse Studio Vision Model** — An in-house vision-language model purpose-built for documents and spreadsheets, with OCR, layout detection, reading order, table and chart parsing.
- **Custom Schemas** — Define JSON schemas to extract exactly the fields you need - invoices, tax forms, clinical notes, financial statements, contracts.
- **Flexible Deployment** — Cloud API, VPC-isolated, on-premises, Docker, and Kubernetes - with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA BAA coverage.

## Achievements

- Processed over 1 billion pages across Fortune 10 enterprises and AI startups
- Raised $3.9M seed led by NFDG in February 2025
- Trained an in-house vision-language model for documents and spreadsheets
- Achieved SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA BAA compliance
- Graduated from Y Combinator Summer 2024

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Announced $3.9M seed round led by NFDG with Y Combinator, Sequoia Scout, Soma, Liquid 2, Olive Tree, and execs from NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Ramp.
- **2024-09** — Graduated from Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch.

## Links

- Website: https://www.runpulse.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pulse-ai-corp
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/Pulse__AI

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Last updated: 2026-06-28