Adit Abraham

Adit Abraham is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Reducto, an AI document intelligence platform headquartered in San Francisco.^[10] He co-founded the company in September 2023 with Raunak Chowdhuri, a fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumnus, and the pair entered Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch.^[18] Within 18 months of that batch, Reducto raised $108 million across three rounds — an $8.4 million seed led by First Round Capital, a $24.5 million Series A led by Benchmark, and a $75 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz — reaching a $600 million valuation while having burned approximately $1 million in capital.^[2][5][7][1]

Before Reducto, Abraham studied computer science and engineering at MIT, where he conducted machine learning research at the MIT Media Lab and participated in the MIT delta v Accelerator.^[3][6] He worked as a product manager at Google on the Ads and Search team from 2022 to 2023 before leaving to start Reducto.^[3][18] He and Chowdhuri were named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the AI category in 2026.^[1][13]

Reducto's platform converts unstructured documents — PDFs, scans, spreadsheets, and legacy files — into structured data for AI pipelines.^[16] The company processes close to one billion pages per month for customers including Harvey, Scale AI, Vanta, and Fortune 10 enterprises across finance, healthcare, legal, and insurance.^[14][5] Abraham handled all of Reducto's go-to-market operations as a solo operator through the company's first several million dollars in annual recurring revenue, closing a Fortune 10 contract while the company was still a two-person team.^[3][20]

Abraham's interest in programming began in high school, where the mobile game Flappy Bird — and rumors that its creator was earning $50,000 per day — prompted him to learn to code.^[3] He and a high school friend built a goal-setting app, their first entrepreneurial project. The app itself did not gain traction, but the Instagram pages they created to promote it — posting summaries of books like How to Win Friends and Influence People — grew on their own.^[3] Abraham continued running Instagram pages as a paid service for other companies after the app shut down, an experience he later described as his first education in marketing.^[3]

Abraham enrolled at MIT, where he studied computer science and engineering.^[18] During his undergraduate years, he worked as a software engineer at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology Centre in 2018 and conducted machine learning research at the MIT Media Lab.^[10][18] He also worked as an ML engineer at BlinkAI Technologies, a computational photography startup, where he applied generative adversarial networks to produce synthetic training data.^[10]

As a junior, Abraham enrolled in a graduate-level machine learning course where he encountered Raunak Chowdhuri, then a freshman, who was introduced by the professor as the person who would walk the class through the first problem set.^[3] Chowdhuri had been publishing computer vision research since age 12 and had accumulated over 100 academic citations before finishing high school.^[3] The two lived in the same MIT residential living group and were paired in a big-little mentorship program, deepening a friendship that would eventually become a co-founding relationship.^[3]

While at MIT, Abraham joined the delta v Accelerator program and built Sidewalk, a Shopify plugin that recommended products from other stores during checkout.^[3][6] The project was listed among MIT Sloan's "17 MIT Startups to Watch."^[3] After graduating, Abraham ran Sidewalk for approximately one year before joining Google.^[3]

Google (2022–2023)

Abraham joined Google in May 2022 as a product manager on the Ads and Search team, working on YouTube Search.^[18][3] He later described the role as unfulfilling after the autonomy of running his own startup. "I was very bored at my job at Google and was vocal about that," he said in a 2025 interview.^[4] He left Google in November 2023 to co-found Reducto.^[3]

During Abraham's time at Google, Chowdhuri was finishing his own undergraduate work at MIT and wrapping up a computational chemistry consulting company he had scaled to $200,000 in annual recurring revenue.^[3] The two began competing in hackathons together, including winning an Anthropic hackathon shortly after the release of Claude.^[3] Abraham later said the decision to co-found was driven less by a specific idea than by the working relationship: "At the time, I wasn't focused on the idea that we would work on or whether we could get funding. I was just excited to build with this person."^[3]

Reducto (2023–present)

Abraham and Chowdhuri incorporated Reducto on September 26, 2023, and applied to Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch with Remembrall, a long-term memory solution for large language models.^[3][18] They set a rule for themselves: if accepted into YC, they would commit to the idea for the duration of the batch rather than pivot aimlessly.^[3] Within days of starting the program, however, they recognized that Remembrall's users were not willing to pay. The most common feature request was not about memory at all — users kept asking if the product could also manage the files they were uploading.^[3]

The founders began offering free computer vision consulting to potential customers, which surfaced a recurring bottleneck: enterprises across finance, healthcare, legal, and insurance were struggling to extract structured data from unstructured PDFs.^[3] Abraham and Chowdhuri built a rudimentary document parsing tool — a Streamlit app assembled over a weekend — and posted it on YC's internal forum.^[3] The response was immediate. Users asked for a hosted API and a Stripe link. "The pull was much stronger than everything else we had worked on," Abraham said.^[3] They pivoted to document parsing full-time.

Reducto's technical approach combined traditional optical character recognition with vision-language models to interpret documents the way a human reader would — capturing layout, structure, and semantic cues such as paragraph spacing and table boundaries.^[3][16] The company deployed six different vision models in its platform and used a multi-pass approach to detect and correct errors.^[3][11] Abraham made a deliberate decision to support only two PDF features rather than the 35 file types competitors offered, a narrowing strategy he credited with maintaining product quality.^[7]

By YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day in April 2024, Reducto was receiving 55,000 monthly visitors to its website.^[3] A Fortune 10 company discovered the product through Reducto's public playground — an interactive demo where users could upload documents and see parsing results — and booked a demo call unprompted.^[3][20] At the time, Reducto was a two-person company. "When we were a two-person company, a trillion-dollar enterprise decided to book a demo, and the reason they booked a demo was that we had public playgrounds where they uploaded hard documents that they'd seen fail on every other tool," Abraham later recounted.^[20] Within six months of launching, the company went from zero to seven figures in annual recurring revenue.^[4][9]

Abraham ran Reducto's entire go-to-market function as a solo operator, handling all sales, customer onboarding, and support. He maintained a direct-access policy in which any customer could text or Slack him at any time.^[3][4] The company reached $5 million in ARR before hiring any sales representatives.^[7] He said his first GTM hire would be a customer success manager rather than a salesperson: "It is not at all acceptable to me for existing people that trust Reducto to not continue to be this excellent solution for them."^[4]

Reducto raised an $8.4 million seed round led by First Round Capital in October 2024.^[3] In April 2025, the company closed a $24.5 million Series A led by Benchmark, with participation from First Round Capital, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator.^[2][11] Five months later, in October 2025, Reducto raised a $75 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Benchmark, First Round Capital, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator also participating.^[5][14][16] The Series B valued the company at $600 million and brought total funding to $108 million.^[1][17] Abraham said the Series B closed in approximately 48 hours.^[7]

Between the Series A and Series B, Reducto's monthly processing volume grew 6x.^[14][16] By the time of the Series B, the platform had processed over one billion pages cumulatively and was processing close to one billion pages per month.^[14][13] The company's customers included Harvey, Rogo, Scale AI, Vanta, and Airtable, as well as Fortune 10 enterprises in finance, healthcare, legal, and insurance.^[5][16] The company reported zero enterprise churn.^[12] At the time of the Series B, Reducto had burned only approximately $1 million in total capital.^[7][12]

Abraham grew the team from four employees to approximately 20 in the early growth phase, and by late 2025 the company had between 50 and 100 employees.^[7][18] He reduced each engineer's weekly task list to a single priority item, a management practice he credited with maintaining execution speed as the team scaled.^[12] He also deliberately turned down multi-million-dollar contracts in the construction document space to maintain product focus.^[7]

Abraham and co-founder Chowdhuri were named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the AI category for 2026.^[1][13][15] The listing cited Reducto's processing of close to one billion pages per month, its $108 million in total funding, and its $600 million valuation.^[1]

Abraham was selected as a speaker at the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026, presenting a session on how AI teams ingest unstructured data at scale.^[19]

Abraham is of Indian origin and is based in San Francisco.^[13][10] He has described himself as having spent "an unreasonable amount of time playing Pokemon Showdown" during his MIT years.^[18] The name Reducto is derived from a spell in the Harry Potter series that shatters solid objects — a metaphor, Abraham said, for breaking complex documents into structured, AI-ready pieces. "We had this notion of wanting to build magical tools for developers. We had a list of names that were magic-adjacent. Reducto was one of them, and we picked it," he told Fortune.^[11]