Extend

Extend YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Extend went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch
Winter 2023
Industry
B2B
Team size
25
Status
Active
Launched
2023

Founders

  • Kushal Byatnal
    Kushal ByatnalFounder
  • Eli Badgio
    Eli BadgioFounder

What Extend does

Parse, extract, and split your hardest documents with unmatched accuracy. Read any layout with specialized vision models, and ship reliable pipelines in minutes, not months.

Extend's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Extend, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Extend

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Production-ready document processing

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build software that parses, extracts, and splits complex documents with high accuracy. Our product reads any layout using specialized vision models, letting engineers ship reliable document processing pipelines in minutes instead of months.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in New York, NY, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we built our team and product, and it has the customers and talent we need for B2B document processing.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Extend YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Extend's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Extend would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.

What YC batch was Extend in?

Extend was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch.

Who founded Extend?

Extend was founded by Kushal Byatnal, Eli Badgio.

What does Extend do?

Production-ready document processing

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Extend's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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