EvolutionaryScale vs Duckie

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

EvolutionaryScale

ChallengerHealthcare & Life Sciences

AI Protein Design & Biology

AI biology lab building protein design models (ESM3, 98B params). Founded 2023 by ex-Meta scientists. $142M seed. Acquired by Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Nov 2025.

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EvolutionaryScale was an AI research lab founded in 2023 by former Meta AI protein team scientists, including CEO Alexander Rives. Based in New York City, the company developed frontier AI models for protein design and biological discovery. Its flagship model ESM3 is a 98-billion-parameter generative AI system trained on 2.78 billion protein sequences capable of reasoning over protein sequence, structure, and function simultaneously.

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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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