Extend · Jul 2026
Customer case study showing Extend deployed across Opendoor production paths, processing millions of pages per month and reducing manual document work.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Extend is a New York-based AI-native document processing infrastructure company that helps technical teams parse, extract, classify, split, validate, and route complex real-world documents into production-ready data. The product emphasizes layout-first parsing, benchmark-driven quality on real documents, and a full-stack workflow from APIs/SDKs to evals, optimization, and self-hosted enterprise deployment.
Primary product
Document processing infrastructure for AI agents
Founded
2023
Headquarters
New York City, New York, United States
Team size
20-30
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Intelligent document processing
Offices
New York City, New York, United States
Business model
B2B SaaS
usage-based API
metered credits
enterprise contracts
self-serve free-to-paid plans
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$17.5M
Latest round
Series A · Jun 2025
Latest amount
$17M
Jun 2025 · Innovation Endeavors
Jun 2022
Jan 2020
Mar 2019
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Head of Ops & People
Founding Sales Lead
Founding Growth
Work & culture
High-performance, talent-dense, founder-led team; the company explicitly emphasizes former founders and engineers, in-person collaboration in NYC, speed, and meaningful equity. Public hiring materials also signal a hands-on, ownership-oriented culture.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public engineering hiring material shows a Staff Software Engineer range of $250K-$300K base with equity, plus strong benefits. The company also advertises relocation support, unlimited PTO, and generous perks; no broader company-wide comp bands were found.
Benefits
90% health insurance premium coverage
relocation support for candidates outside NYC
unlimited PTO
daily lunch and snacks
dinner if you stay late
unlimited token/tooling access
learning and development investment
meaningful equity
Product & market
Pricing
Free plan, pay-as-you-go credits, scale tier, and custom enterprise pricing; billing is credit-based per page and varies by processor/mode.
Differentiators
- —Layout-first parsing with Parse 2.0
- —RealDoc-Bench benchmark on real-world documents
- —Full-stack document processing cloud
- —Multi-pass review and validation agents
- —Composer for schema optimization
- —Self-hosted deployment option
- —End-to-end workflows with versioning and durability
- —Strong support for messy, high-stakes documents such as forms, tables, handwriting, and scans
Technology
OCR
multimodal vision models
LLMs
VLMs
layout detection
reading-order models
multi-pass review agents
schema-based extraction
fine-tuning pipelines
Python SDK
TypeScript SDK
Java SDK
Go SDK
CLI
self-hosted deployment
Customers
Brex
Square
Checkr
Flatiron Health
Mercury
Zillow
Chime
Opendoor
multiple Fortune 500 companies
Competitors
AWS Textract
Azure Document Intelligence
LlamaParse
Reducto
Rossum
Instabase
ABBYY
Docugami
Hypatos
Tungsten Automation
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
low eight-figure ARR
Estimated monthly visits
34.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
Extend · Jun 2026
Explains why layout detection and reading order are critical to parsing quality, and how Extend's new layout model improves determinism, routing, and downstream agent performance.
Extend · May 2026
Launch of Parse 2.0 and the RealDoc-Bench benchmark, highlighting layout-first parsing, real-world document evaluation, and state-of-the-art performance on production-like documents.
Business Wire · Jun 2025
Funding announcement for Extend's $17M seed and Series A round led by Innovation Endeavors, with participation from Y Combinator, Homebrew, Character, and several angels. The post also states the company quickly reached multi-millions in ARR and became cash-flow positive.
SiliconANGLE · Jun 2025
External coverage of the funding round, customer traction, and product positioning in the AI document-processing market.
Jobs and careers at Extend
17 jobs at Extend
Account Executive, Corporate Enterprise
On-site
Mid Market Sales (524)
San Francisco, CA; San Francisco, California, United States
1w ago
On-site
Full-time
People Transformation Specialist
Remote
Human Resources (130)
Remote, U.S.; Remote, US
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
People Generalist
Remote
Human Resources (130)
Remote, U.S.; Remote, US
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Manager, Fraud Intelligence
Remote
Risk Analytics (516)
Remote, U.S.; Remote, US
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Senior Manager or Director, People
Remote
Human Resources (130)
Remote, US
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Manager, Risk Analytics
Remote
Risk Analytics (516)
Remote, U.S.; Remote, US
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Senior Machine Learning Data Scientist
Remote
Risk Analytics (516)
Remote, US
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Legal Counsel
Remote
Legal (120)
Remote, U.S.
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Analytics Engineer
Remote
Data Engineering (350)
Remote, US
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Engineering Manager - Servicing & Fulfillment
Remote
Product Engineering Management (301)
Remote, US
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Product Manager II
Remote
Product Management (310)
Remote, US
1mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Business Development Representative II
On-site
Sales Development (550)
San Francisco, CA
2mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Analyst, Client Insights
Remote
Revenue Analytics (515)
Remote, US
2mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Solutions Architect (Delivery)
Remote
Solution Engineering (570)
Remote, US
3mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Lead Risk Analytics Data Scientist
Remote
Risk Analytics (516)
Remote, US
4mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Fraud Operations Specialist I
Remote
Warranty Operations (201)
Remote, US
4mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Account Manager, Enterprise Growth Strategy
Remote
Merchant Success (560)
Remote, US
7mo ago
Remote
Full-time