Ignite Insights · Jul 2026
Recent interview with the CEO discussing how Cekura simulates and evaluates voice agents at scale, its customer base, and where the product is headed next.
Voice AI and Chat AI agents: Testing and Observability
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Cekura is a YC F24, San Francisco–based B2B SaaS company that builds automated QA, simulation, and observability for voice and chat AI agents, helping teams test agents before launch and monitor real conversations in production.
Primary product
Automated QA, simulation, and observability platform for conversational AI agents
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-20
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Conversational AI testing and observability
Offices
Tandem, 128 King Street, San Francisco, CA
710 Lakeway Drive, Suite 200, Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Business model
B2B SaaS
subscription SaaS
usage-based SaaS
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$5.4M
Latest round
Seed Round · Jul 2025
Latest amount
$2.4M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founder & President
Investors
Alan Rutledge
Allen Wu
Allport Capital
Amitav Chakravartty
Austen Allred
Avinash Gupta Konda
Chris Smoak
Decacorn
Flex Capital
Hike Ventures
Ignite Ventures
Imagination Capital
Jinal Jhaveri
JJ Fliegelman
Klaus Sayn-Wittgenstein
Kulveer Taggar
Matt Lenhard
Ooshma Garg
Patrick D. Deem, Jr.
Pioneer Fund
Raphael Schaad
Richard Aberman
Rishi Penmetcha
Y Combinator
Work & culture
Early-stage, founder-led, highly technical, and fast-moving. Public hiring language emphasizes ownership, speed, and a high-intensity environment, including long hours and weekend work for some roles.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public YC job posts list U.S. engineering roles at roughly $120K-$180K base plus equity, India engineering roles at roughly $40K-$60K plus equity, Founding BDR at $60K-$90K plus 0.02%-0.04% equity, and Founding AE at $100K-$200K plus 0.15%-0.35% equity.
Benefits
Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Team lunches and dinners
Meaningful equity
Unlimited tooling budget
Product & market
Pricing
Self-serve pay-as-you-go plus a Startup Plan and custom Enterprise contracts; usage-based pricing for voice testing and monitored calls, with subscription billing for higher tiers.
Differentiators
- —Pre-production simulation across thousands of realistic personas and accents
- —Voice-native observability for LLM, STT, TTS, and tool-call behavior
- —Production call monitoring plus regression testing across the agent lifecycle
- —Automated alerting, analytics, and root-cause clustering for failed calls
- —Native integrations with major voice stacks such as Vapi, Retell, LiveKit, Pipecat, ElevenLabs, Cisco, Synthflow, and Five9
- —MCP server and AI-assistant skills for workflow automation
- —Enterprise security/compliance options including HIPAA, GDPR, BAA/DPA, and VPC/on-prem deployment
Technology
Python
Django
React
PostgreSQL
Redis
Celery
Twilio
WebRTC
SIP
OpenTelemetry
MCP
LiveKit
Pipecat
Vapi
Retell
ElevenLabs
AWS
OpenAI
Anthropic
GitHub Actions
Customers
75+ customers across healthcare, BFSI, logistics, recruitment, and retail
Twin Health
Lindy
Prodigal
Nurix
Skit
major CCaaS providers
major US health system
top European telecom
top banks in India
Competitors
Cyara
SplxAI
Geordie AI
LangSmith
Langfuse
PromptLayer
Weights & Biases
Voiceflow
Scale & contact
Latest news
LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Company post highlighting new root-cause analysis, tracing, learning content, and extensibility features for voice-agent teams.
The Economic Times · Jul 2025
Reports the $2.4M raise, India-office plans, and mentions customers in India as well as the company’s goal of hiring more engineers and expanding enterprise sales.
Business Insider · Jul 2025
Covered the seed round led by Y Combinator, named participating investors, and noted the company’s small team size at the time of the raise.
Cekura blog · Jun 2025
Official announcement of the seed round, the founding team, the San Francisco office at Tandem, and the product mission around conversational AI reliability.
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