# Unstructured

> Unstructured is a San Francisco company building the data layer for generative AI. Its open-source library and enterprise platform ingest PDFs, slide decks, emails, images and 70+ other file types, then transform them into clean, structured data that LLMs and RAG pipelines can actually use.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Brian Raymond (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~120
- **Products:** Unstructured Open Source Library, Unstructured Platform, Unstructured Serverless API
- **Notable:** Raised $65M in total funding across Seed, Series A and Series B, Open-source library downloaded 6M+ times, Adopted by one-third of the Fortune 500 within two years of launch

## Products & services

- **Unstructured Open Source Library** — Python library for ingesting and preprocessing PDFs, images, HTML, Word docs and more into clean elements for LLMs.
- **Unstructured Platform** — Enterprise ETL platform that connects to 30+ data sources, supports 70+ file types and outputs retrieval-optimized chunks with metadata, summaries and embeddings.
- **Unstructured Serverless API** — Hosted API for high-throughput document partitioning, chunking and enrichment without managing infrastructure.

## Achievements

- Raised $65M in total funding across Seed, Series A and Series B
- Open-source library downloaded 6M+ times
- Adopted by one-third of the Fortune 500 within two years of launch
- Featured on Forbes AI 50 / IA40 lists for AI infrastructure

## Latest updates

- **2024-03** — $40M Series B led by Menlo Ventures with Databricks, IBM and NVIDIA participating.
- **2024** — Launched the Unstructured Platform - enterprise ETL for GenAI workloads.
- **2024** — Expanded VLM-based Platinum tier for handwritten and scanned documents.

## Links

- Website: https://unstructured.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unstructuredio
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/UnstructuredIO
- GitHub: https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unstructuredio

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Last updated: 2026-05-23