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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.
Davis Treybig
Davis Treybig is General Partner at Innovation Endeavors, a deep tech venture firm in Palo Alto co-founded by Eric Schmidt. After graduating valedictorian from Duke's engineering school and spending three years as a Product Manager at Google working on Chrome, Google Assistant, and Pixel, he joined Innovation Endeavors and rose from Associate to General Partner in six years. His investment focus spans software and computing infrastructure, AI/ML tools, developer tooling, cybersecurity, and data systems. A prolific writer on Substack and Medium, he is known for research-driven due diligence - spending months in a space before writing a check - and for being the first call many founders make when sparring a new idea.