# Sid Manchkanti

> Sid Manchkanti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pulse, a production-grade document intelligence platform that converts complex unstructured documents into LLM-ready structured data. A Berkeley CS graduate with experience at NVIDIA and D.E. Shaw, he co-founded Pulse in 2024 after going through Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. The company raised a $3.9M seed round led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, and has processed over one billion pages for Fortune 100 enterprises across finance, healthcare, insurance, legal, and supply chain sectors.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Pulse
- **Organizations:** Pulse, Y Combinator, NVIDIA, D.E. Shaw Group
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (EECS), UC Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded Pulse and scaled it to 1 billion pages processed in production within ~1 year, Raised $3.9M seed round from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Y Combinator, and Sequoia Capital Scout, Built document extraction achieving 92% accuracy on handwritten medical notes vs. 54% for legacy systems

## Career timeline

- **2018-2022** — Studied Computer Science (EECS) at UC Berkeley
- **2022-2023** — Software and product roles at NVIDIA in Santa Clara, CA
- **2023-2024** — Joined D.E. Shaw Group in Manhattan in a technology/quant role
- **2024** — Co-founded Pulse AI with Ritvik Pandey; accepted into Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch
- **2024** — Launched Pulse's production API after processing 600M+ pages for Fortune 100 enterprises
- **February 2025** — Announced $3.9M seed round led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross (NFDG), with Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital Scout, and others
- **September 2025** — Pulse joined Cloudera's Enterprise AI Ecosystem at EVOLVE25 NYC
- **December 2025** — Pulse surpassed 1 billion pages processed in production

## Achievements

- Co-founded Pulse and scaled it to 1 billion pages processed in production within ~1 year
- Raised $3.9M seed round from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Y Combinator, and Sequoia Capital Scout
- Built document extraction achieving 92% accuracy on handwritten medical notes vs. 54% for legacy systems
- Grew Pulse to 33 employees based in San Francisco
- Secured partnerships with Fortune 100 enterprises across finance, healthcare, insurance, legal, and supply chain
- Joined Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch
- Joined Cloudera's Enterprise AI Ecosystem (September 2025)
- Achieved up to 40% higher retrieval accuracy on downstream RAG workloads
- Enabled a growth-stage company to save 2,000+ hours/month in accounting workflows

## Latest updates

- **2025-12** — Pulse surpassed 1 billion pages processed in production; launched new platform branding and free tier (up to 20,000 pages)
- **2025-09** — Pulse joined Cloudera's Enterprise AI Ecosystem at EVOLVE25 NYC, enabling end-to-end document-to-lakehouse workflows
- **2025-02** — Announced $3.9M seed round led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, with participation from YC, Sequoia Scout, Soma Capital, and others
- **2024-10** — Y Combinator highlighted Pulse's API as SOTA for PDF data extraction; launched to the public

## Links

- Website: https://www.sidmanchkanti.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidmanchkanti/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/sid_mnk

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Last updated: 2026-05-13