Duckie YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Duckie went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Valerie LiFounder
Joel RitossaFounder

What Duckie does

Duckie lets customer support teams build their own AI agents in minutes! With Duckie, support teams can translate their tasks and processes into predictable and reliable AI workflows that saves them time and money. Folks use Duckie to handle a wide range of use cases, from answers customers technical questions to processing refunds, and everything in between.

Duckie's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Duckie, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Duckie

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Build AI Support Agents in Minutes

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We are building a platform that lets customer support teams create AI agents tailored to their specific tasks and workflows in minutes. The product turns support processes into reliable AI-driven workflows that handle everything from answering technical questions to processing refunds, saving teams time and money.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are based and it keeps us close to a large tech ecosystem, making recruiting and customer development easier.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Duckie YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Duckie's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Duckie would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.