CuspAI vs Duckie

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

CuspAI

EmergingArtificial Intelligence

AI Materials Discovery

Raised $100M Series A (Sep 2025) at $520M valuation led by Temasek and NEA with NVIDIA. Kemira strategic partnership. 20x contract value growth in 21 months. Materials discovery in 6 months vs. a decade.

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CuspAI is building the search engine for materials — an AI platform where researchers input desired material properties and receive novel chemical compositions within days rather than decades of traditional experimental synthesis. The company raised $100 million in Series A financing at a $520 million valuation in September 2025, led by Temasek and NEA with NVIDIA as a strategic co-investor. CuspAI has demonstrated full-cycle materials discovery in 6 months versus the decade-long timelines of traditional research, with contract value growing 20x in 21 months.

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Duckie

EmergingInfrastructure

IT Operations

SF YC W24 AI support agent builder at 80% resolution time reduction and 71% ticket deflection; $500K from a16z/Greylock/YC/Netflix competing with Intercom Fin for customer support AI workflow automation.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D25
Category Rank
#18 of 68
AI Consensus
59%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
33
Perplexity
19
Gemini
36

About

Duckie is a San Francisco-based AI customer support platform — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $500,000 in funding from Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, KungHo Fund, Netflix, and 5 additional investors — providing customer support teams with an AI agent builder that translates existing support processes and workflows into predictable, reliable AI automation, achieving 80% reduction in resolution time and 71% ticket deflection for deployed teams. Founded in 2023 and targeting customer support leaders at growth-stage software companies, Duckie enables support teams to deploy AI agents in minutes without engineering dependency.

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