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Cekura

Fall 2024 · Active

Voice AI and Chat AI agents: Testing and Observability

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2024

Team size: 5

About

Cekura helps Conversational AI companies with automated QA. From pre-production simulation and evaluations to production call monitoring, to assisting customers in setting up the CI/CD pipeline, we help in QA across the agent lifecycle. We are working with 75+ customers across healthcare, BFSI, logistics, recruitment, and retail. Some of the largest CCAS players and enterprises use Cekura to ship AI voice and chat agents reliably

Founders

  • Tarush AgarwalFounder

    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.

  • Shashij GuptaFounder

    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.

  • Sidhant KabraFounder

    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.