Macro, a startup that uses AI to make PDF files more interactive, raised $9.3M in a seed funding round.

 

Macro, a startup that uses AI to make PDF files more interactive, raised $9.3M in a seed funding round.  Through AI, the startup provides a PDF editor that pulls out key terms, sections, and equations so documents are more interactive. Jacob Beckerman, a former investment logic engineer, built Macro's product after being frustrated with how difficult it was to print out and markup PDFs on Acrobat and Microsoft Office. Andreessen Horowitz led the funding round, and Craft and BoxGroup participated too. Macro plans to release a word-processing tool and grow its workforce of eight staff members. The startup plans to improve user experience on formats like PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, and email, which are standards. Nobody owns them, so they can easily be modified.