Reduck secures $3M to make web automation faster for AI agents

French-American AI startup Reduck has raised $3 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Daphni, with participation from Drysdale Ventures and Galion.exe. The company is developing technology that enables AI agents to interact with websites and automate tasks without relying on traditional APIs. Founded by Daniel Huynh (CEO), Louis Abraham (CTO) and Raphaël Millet (COO), Reduck aims to address one of the challenges limiting the adoption of AI agents: the lack of direct access to websites and business applications. While AI agents are increasingly being developed to automate digital tasks, many websites and internal business tools do not provide APIs or Model Context Protocol (MCP) interfaces that allow agents to interact with them directly. As a result, agents often rely on browser-based interactions, such as clicking and typing, which can be slow, costly and unreliable when performing complex tasks. To address this challenge, Reduck has developed Reduck MCP, a platform that allows A