Cekura has raised $2.4M seed round to bring scalable testing to conversational AI.
The round was led by Y Combinator, with participation from Flex Capital, Hike Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Decacorn, and several angel investors including Kulveer Taggar, Chris Smoak, Ooshma Garg, Richard Aberman, and JJ Fliegelman.
The company was founded by IIT Bombay alumni Shashij, Sidhant, and Tarush, who previously worked across AI research, quantitative finance, and large-scale contact centre operations.
The idea for Cekura emerged from their own experience building healthcare voice agents and running into the limitations of manual testing processes, which failed to catch many production issues.
Cekura is said to enable teams to simulate conversations at scale, test edge cases, monitor real-time AI interactions, and generate insights to improve reliability.
Its platform replaces time-consuming QA work with automated, coverage-rich testing and is designed to meet the accuracy and compliance needs of industries like healthcare and financial services.
Since launching in Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 batch, Cekura has expanded rapidly to support over 70 customers across sectors including logistics, finance, recruiting, retail, and training.
With the rise of AI-powered customer interactions and an estimated $10 billion market for voice AI quality assurance, the company aims to become foundational infrastructure for teams building reliable conversational AI.
Author: Hannah Swankie
Reviewed by: Jo Robinson
Published On: 8th Jul 2025
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