Adit Abraham
Adit Abraham is the co-founder and chief executive of the document intelligence company ReductoReductoReducto is a U.S. document AI software company whose products cover document parsing, structured extraction, workflow configuration and file editing.Open the full entry. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former GoogleGoogleGoogle is an American technology company founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and incorporated in 1998. It became an Alphabet subsidiary in 2015. Its businesses include internet search, advertising, software platforms, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.Open the full entry product manager, he co-founded Reducto with Raunak ChowdhuriRaunak ChowdhuriRaunak Chowdhuri is the co-founder and chief technology officer of the document intelligence company Reducto. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, did machine learning research from an early age and ran a computational chemistry venture before co-founding Reducto with Adit Abraham in 2023.Open the full entry in 2023.
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Early Years: MIT
Adit Abraham is listed on the Class of 2022 roster of the Phi Kappa Theta chapter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with Salisbury, Maryland, as his hometown and computer science and engineering (Course 6-3) as his major.[1]
He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from MIT, worked as a machine learning engineer at BlinkAI Technologies and did software engineering at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).[2]
He also did machine learning research at the MIT Media Lab.[3]
He met Raunak Chowdhuri while both were students at MIT.[4]
Early Career: Google
He worked as a product manager at Google on Ads and Search.[3]
He spent about 18 months at Google, working on YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry Search revenue growth and an advertising launch.[2]
2023–2024Founding Reducto
In 2023 he and Chowdhuri co-founded Reducto in San Francisco; the company joined Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch (W24).[5]
He says they applied to Y Combinator with Remembrall, a long-term memory tool for large language models, then pivoted to document parsing after a weekend prototype drew demand from other YC founders.[6]
The company is named after a Harry Potter spell; he said, “Weirdly, it works with what we do, but it wasn’t at all intentional.”[4]
October 2024Seed Round
Reducto announced an $8.4 million seed round led by First Round CapitalFirst Round CapitalVenture capital firm.Open the full entry.[7]
April 2025Series A
Reducto raised a $24.5 million Series A led by Benchmark, bringing total funding to about $33 million.[8]
June 2025Reducto Studio
He introduced Reducto Studio, a tool for building document pipelines, in a Hacker News post that opened, “Hi HN! We’re Adit and Raunak, co-founders of Reducto.”[9]
October 2025Series B
Reducto announced a $75 million Series B led by Andreessen HorowitzAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry, bringing total funding to $108 million. He said, “Documents contain some of the most valuable data in most industries.”[10]
December 2025Forbes 30 Under 30
He and Chowdhuri were named to the AI category of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for 2026.[11]
May 2026Acquiring Opennote
Reducto announced the acquisition of Opennote, an AI notebook for students; the Opennote team joined Reducto and the education product was to be shut down. Terms were not disclosed.[12]
September–October 2026: New Model, New York Office and Reducto Office
In September 2026 Reducto released a preview of r-1, a document-parsing model priced at one cent per page.[13]
That month the company opened a New York office as its East Coast hub. He said, “New York is home to many of the enterprises shaping how AI is deployed across major industries.”[14]
In October the company launched Reducto Office, a plugin for editing Office files in ChatGPT and Codex.[15]
Sources
- Class of 2022 | Phi Kappa Theta (opens in a new window)
- Fireside Chat with Adit Abraham and Nischal Nadhamuni (opens in a new window)
- Adit Abraham - Y Combinator Founder of Reducto (opens in a new window)
- Exclusive: Reducto, AI document parsing startup, raises $24.5 million Series A led by Benchmark (opens in a new window)
- Reducto (opens in a new window)
- How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (Co-founder & CEO at Reducto) (opens in a new window)
- Reducto raises $8.4 million to help LLMs read documents the way humans do (opens in a new window)
- Reducto raises $24.5M Series A to help enterprises unlock unstructured data (opens in a new window)
- Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast (opens in a new window)
- Reducto Raises $75M Series B to Define the Future of AI Document Intelligence (opens in a new window)
- 50 Indian Americans among Forbes' 2026 30 Under 30 changemakers (opens in a new window)
- Canadian-founded Opennote acquired by San Francisco-based Reducto (opens in a new window)
- Introducing r-1 and our new generation of document parsing models (opens in a new window)
- Reducto Announces New York City Expansion (opens in a new window)
- Introducing Reducto Office: Full-fidelity doc editing in ChatGPT and Codex (opens in a new window)