If you ever wondered what happens when two Massachusetts Institute of Technology minds drop the clutch on a real-world problem instead of another homework assignment, meet Reducto. Founded in 2023 by Adit Abraham (CEO) and Raunak Chowdhuri (CTO), Reducto isn’t parsing documents, it’s dissecting the future of data, one chaotic PDF at a time.
This isn’t a story about another “AI company.” This is two guys who lived the bottleneck firsthand, at Google, Nvidia, MIT Media Lab, Oloren AI, then bet everything on fixing the slowest, messiest part of enterprise AI: ingestion. Translation? They saw 80% of enterprise data trapped in documents that LLMs couldn’t touch without a PhD-level translator, and built the API to break that lock.
Today, Reducto’s platform chews through PDFs, spreadsheets, images, and even PowerPoints like a wood chipper on Red Bull. Their vision models and VLMs don’t read documents, they interrogate them, slice them up, verify the outputs, and spit back structured, LLM-ready data with human-like accuracy. Not a claim. A fact. 250 million pages parsed since launch. Millions of docs a month. Customers from upstart scrappers to Fortune 10 juggernauts.
And now, with $24.5M fresh in Series A fuel led by Benchmark (with First Round Capital, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator rolling deep again), the engine’s about to redline. Props to Chetan Puttagunta from Benchmark for joining the board and recognizing what the rest of the industry’s about to figure out: Reducto isn’t an API company. It’s the plumbing behind the AI renaissance, and the guys holding the wrench aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.
Reducto’s out here stacking wins. Airtable, Scale AI, Vanta, Legora, and one unnamed Fortune 10 already see it. Tripled processing speeds. 90% less engineering time spent chunking data. HIPAA ready. SOC 2 ready. Hosted or self-hosted. Zero data retention if you want it. In a world selling AI smoke, Reducto’s selling clean oxygen.
The next move? Building a unified platform that makes parsing, splitting, classification, and extraction feel like second nature, even for teams that think JSON is a new Marvel character. They're scaling the tech, expanding the schema games, going multilingual, and making it stupid-simple to get from unstructured chaos to usable gold.
When you name your company Reducto, you better know how to shrink giants down to size. That's exactly what they're doing, crushing the bloat and friction out of AI workflows. No cape needed. Just raw tech, better product, and leadership that knows the grind because they lived it.
Congrats to Adit, Raunak, to the Benchmark and First Round Capital teams. And congrats to every AI engineer who’s about to find out what happens when your documents finally tap out and your models tap in.
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