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Houston TX YC W20 clinical-stage AV fistula wrap for dialysis patients with 200-patient RCT underway; $22.8M total ($20M Good Growth/Norwest Series A Jun 2024 + $3.6M NIH grant) targeting vascular access failure competing for dialysis market.
VenoStent is a Houston, Texas-based clinical-stage medical device company — backed by Y Combinator (W20) with $22.8 million in total funding including a $20 million Series A in June 2024 led by Good Growth Capital and IAG Capital Partners with $4 million from Norwest Venture Partners, plus a $3.6 million NIH SBIR Phase II Grant — developing SelfWrap, a bioabsorbable perivascular wrap designed to improve arteriovenous (AV) fistula patency rates for chronic kidney disease patients requiring hemodialysis access. Having initiated clinical sites and enrolled first patients in a 200-patient randomized controlled trial (RCT) across multiple US centers in 2024, VenoStent targets the 600,000+ American dialysis patients who depend on reliable vascular access as their lifeline.
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.
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