Cekura

Voice AI and Chat AI agents: Testing and Observability

Y CombinatorFall 2024ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsSaaSB2B

What they do

Problem

Conversational AI teams struggle to reliably test, evaluate, and monitor voice and chat agents across development and production.

Solution

Cekura provides automated QA, simulation/evaluations, production monitoring/observability, and CI/CD support for AI voice and chat agents.

Who it's for

Conversational AI companies, CCaaS providers, and enterprises deploying voice and chat agents across industries.

Founders

Tarush Agarwal

Founder

Tarush is the Co-founder and CEO @ Cekura. Before this, Tarush spent 3 years in quant finance where he developed ultra low latency systems (think nanoseconds) and helped transform a loss making trading strategy into a successful desk doing millions in MRR in 3 months. He studied computer science and statistics at IIT Bombay.

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Shashij Gupta

Founder

Shashij is the Co-Founder & CTO @ Cekura. Previously Shashij worked as a quantitative researcher in a trading firm searching for complex alphas. Shashij has also researched in NLP at Google Research and has a first author paper on testing transformers with 50+ citations from his work at ETH Zurich. He has also studied computer science at IIT Bombay.

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Sidhant Kabra

Founder

Sidhant is the Co-Founder & President @ Cekura. Sidhant comes from a consulting background, advising CEOs at Fortune 500 companies in FMCG and medical devices. He also led a 100+ member team handling customer experience. Recently, he drove product and growth at an edtech startup scaling from 0 to 200K+ users in 6 months. Sidhant completed his bachelor’s from IIT Bombay. During university, he raised $500K in sponsorship deals for Asia’s largest student-led festival.

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