Stop recommending ski jackets in June! Rubber Ducky Labs (Y Combinator W23) builds better recommender systems with ML + human expertise, and it's bring-your-own-model. 🙏 Looking to meet other folks working on recommender systems - intros appreciated! ycombinator.com/launches/Hyi-r…

Welcome to YC, Alexandra Johnson, Georgia, and Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23)! Rubber Ducky Labs helps e-commerce companies avoid tone-deaf product recs — like featuring ski jackets in June. It works by combining ML + human expertise to recommend the best products. ycombinator.com/launches/Hyi-r…

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Big congrats to Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23) on closing its $1.5M seed round, led by Bain Capital Ventures shorturl.at/fhzNX

We're so excited to announce our $1.5M seed round, led by Bain Capital Ventures w/ participation from Cadenza Ventures + Y Combinator + our incredible angels 😇🎉 Reach out if your team is building recommender systems -- we'd love to talk! techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/rub…

Congrats to the team Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23) on the $1.5M round! Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23) builds tools to debug, analyze, and improve recommender systems, allowing ML teams to move faster on projects that have a direct impact on the company’s bottom line. techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/rub…

Thrilled to be working with Alexandra and Georgia at Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23). Every rec sys team I know ends up spending a ton of time hand-building the same suite of monitoring and debugging tools. Excited to see...

We love to support founders from #wimlds! 💪 🙌 Alexandra Johnson ran the WiMLDS Bay Area chapter for nearly 6 years before stepping back to work on new projects, such as co-founding a #MachineLearning startup, Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23).

Speaking of funding news, it was a delight to work on this project with the team at Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23)! Recommender systems govern many experiences we have online -- shopping, content, etc. Helping companies build and measure them is a huge opportunity. Slater Stich

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The incredible @Alexandraj777 CEO of Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23) back at CMU School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University for her 10th reunion during Spring Carnival visiting Women@SCS students in front of my old office in Gates! None of the undergrads here were born when I started Women@SCS 25 years ago!

What makes some RecSys teams operate so much more effectively than others? It's all about unblocking the fast iteration loop.

Read more here! We're planning to do a series going into detail about what it take to set a RecSys team up for success rubberduckylabs.io/blog/from-frus…

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Orrick’s Laura Barr connected with Alexandra Johnson, the CEO and Co-Founder of Y Combinator-backed Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23), for an inspiring conversation about deploying AI to improve recommender systems. Watch the video to learn more.