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Duck Creek’s 26-Year Bet: Insurance Software Should Bend Before the Business Breaks
Duck Creek started with a low-code rating engine in rural Missouri. Three ownership eras and one $2.6 billion take-private later, its original idea - let insurers change the rules without rebuilding the machine - has become the strategy.
REVE Systems
For more than two decades, a company born in Dhaka has quietly wired the plumbing behind millions of internet phone calls - one softswitch, one dialer, one SMS gateway at a time.
Clad
Clad is project management and billing software purpose-built for infrastructure. It unifies project operations and finance so telecom operators and construction subcontractors can track production in the field, automate invoicing and payments, manage vendor compliance, and handle 811 utility locate requests - all in one place. Founded in 2022 by ex-Instagram product manager Jason Rudin and backed by Y Combinator (W23), Clad aims to help the companies rebuilding America's internet and power networks build faster and get paid faster.
Duet
Duet is a San Jose-based software company that builds an all-in-one dispatching, scheduling, and billing platform for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) providers. Founded by Jing Zhu, the company started as a neighborhood carpooling app and pivoted into medical transportation, where it now helps ambulatory, wheelchair, and stretcher fleets of every size handle booking, real-time tracking, driver management, billing, and broker integration. Duet pairs its software with hands-on support - training, marketing, market research, and back-office staffing - aimed at helping small and growing NEMT operators get off the ground and scale.
Jason Rudin
Jason Rudin is the founder and CEO of Clad, a Y Combinator-backed (W23) startup building what he calls the operating system for telecom construction. From a New York base, Clad unifies project operations and finance so utilities, internet companies, and their subcontractors can bid, manage, permit, and get paid for laying fiber and rebuilding power networks. Before founding Clad in 2022, Rudin spent four years as a product manager at Meta and Instagram, externed at Google[X], and worked as a business analyst at McKinsey after graduating from Penn's Wharton School and its Management & Technology program. A self-described builder fascinated by how physical things get made, he woodworks, makes art, and reads widely when he is not automating the unglamorous plumbing of American infrastructure.