Helping companies ship reliable Conversational AI agents faster!
Cekura is a Y Combinator–backed startup redefining AI voice agent reliability. Founded by IIT Bombay alumni with research credentials from ETH Zurich and proven success in high-stakes trading, our team built Cekura to solve the cumbersome, error-prone nature of manual voice agent testing.
We automate the testing and observability of AI voice agents by simulating thousands of realistic, real-world conversational scenarios—from ordering food and booking appointments to conducting interviews. Our platform leverages custom and AI-generated datasets, detailed workflows, and dynamic persona simulations to uncover edge cases and deliver actionable insights. Real-time monitoring, comprehensive logs, and instant alerting ensure that every call is optimized and production-ready.
In a market rapidly expanding with thousands of voice agents, Cekura stands out by guaranteeing dependable performance, reducing time-to-market, and minimizing costly production errors. We empower teams to demonstrate reliability before deployment, making it easier to build trust with clients and users.
Total raised
$2.5M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Shashij Gupta
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.
LinkedInSidhant Kabra
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.
LinkedInSidhant Kabra
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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Tarush Agarwal
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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