diff --git a/backend/app/parsing.py b/backend/app/parsing.py
index 7f719a3d..e18b98ba 100644
--- a/backend/app/parsing.py
+++ b/backend/app/parsing.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """Module contains logic for parsing binary blobs into text."""
-from langchain_community.document_loaders.parsers import BS4HTMLParser, PDFMinerParser
+from langchain_community.document_loaders.parsers import BS4HTMLParser, PDFMinerParser, MarkdownParser
 from langchain_community.document_loaders.parsers.generic import MimeTypeBasedParser
 from langchain_community.document_loaders.parsers.msword import MsWordParser
 from langchain_community.document_loaders.parsers.txt import TextParser
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 HANDLERS = {
     "application/pdf": PDFMinerParser(),
     "text/plain": TextParser(),
+    "text/markdown": MarkdownParser(),
     "text/html": BS4HTMLParser(),
     "application/msword": MsWordParser(),
     "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document": (
diff --git a/backend/tests/unit_tests/agent_executor/test_parsing.py b/backend/tests/unit_tests/agent_executor/test_parsing.py
index b4a9ee5a..dae3462f 100644
--- a/backend/tests/unit_tests/agent_executor/test_parsing.py
+++ b/backend/tests/unit_tests/agent_executor/test_parsing.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ def test_list_of_supported_mimetypes() -> None:
         "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
         "text/html",
         "text/plain",
+        "text/markdown",
     ]
 
 
diff --git a/backend/tests/unit_tests/agent_executor/test_upload.py b/backend/tests/unit_tests/agent_executor/test_upload.py
index e239ef02..e238c3f8 100644
--- a/backend/tests/unit_tests/agent_executor/test_upload.py
+++ b/backend/tests/unit_tests/agent_executor/test_upload.py
@@ -46,4 +46,5 @@ def test_mimetype_guessing() -> None:
         "sample.pdf": "application/pdf",
         "sample.rtf": "application/rtf",
         "sample.txt": "text/plain",
+        "sample.md": "text/markdown",
     } == name_to_mime
diff --git a/backend/tests/unit_tests/fixtures/sample.md b/backend/tests/unit_tests/fixtures/sample.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..77128cfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/tests/unit_tests/fixtures/sample.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# 🦜️ LangChain
+
+## Heading 2
+
+### Heading 3
+
+#### Heading 4