Reducto YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Reducto went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 30
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Adit AbrahamFounder
Raunak ChowdhuriFounder

What Reducto does

Reducto is the agentic document platform for leading AI teams building systems to automate document workflows at enterprise scale. Our platform provides a comprehensive toolkit for working with documents the way a human would, combining custom in-house and leading frontier models to power efficient and accurate document workflows. Reducto is trusted by leading AI teams at companies like Harvey, Scale AI, and Vanta. We are built for enterprise workloads with flexible deployment options from the cloud to fully air-gapped environments, SOC II and HIPAA compliance, and zero data retention. Learn more: Find our YC deal:

Reducto's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Reducto, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Reducto

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The complete agentic document platform

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

Reducto is a platform that automates document workflows at enterprise scale. It uses a toolkit combining our own models and frontier AI models to work with documents like a human would. Customers use it to build AI systems that process, understand, and extract data while meeting enterprise requirements like air-gapped deployment and compliance.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and will base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the engineering talent and enterprise AI customer base we need. Being near our users and investor community helps us move fast and get direct feedback.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Reducto YC application?

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