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.
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 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 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.