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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.
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.
Cambridge MA precision oncology biotech using Dynamo platform to exploit protein motion for drug design; lead asset RLY-2608 targets PI3Kα in breast cancer.
Relay Therapeutics was founded in 2016 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, emerging from research at MIT and D.E. Shaw Research. The company is built around its Dynamo platform, which integrates computational protein motion modeling (molecular dynamics simulations) with structural biology and medicinal chemistry to design small-molecule drugs that exploit the dynamic conformational states of disease-relevant proteins—a dimension traditional structure-based drug design ignores.\n\nRelay's lead program, RLY-2608, is a first-in-class allosteric, mutant-selective PI3Kα inhibitor for advanced breast cancer patients with PI3KCA mutations. Unlike approved PI3Kα inhibitors that cause metabolic toxicity by inhibiting wild-type PI3Kα in normal tissues, RLY-2608 selectively targets the mutant form. The compound has shown early clinical promise including objective responses in patients who progressed on prior alpelisib, supporting a differentiated profile. Additional programs target FGFR2 and SHP2 in solid tumors.\n\nRelay has raised over $1.2 billion in equity financing and holds substantial cash reserves. The company is conducting multiple clinical trials and building a pipeline that validates its Dynamo-guided discovery approach. Though revenue-stage remains early, Relay represents a leading example of next-generation computational oncology companies seeking to turn protein dynamics insights into selective, differentiated medicines.
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