Cekura YC Application

Fall 2024Active

Cekura went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2024 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Fall 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Tarush AgarwalFounder
Shashij GuptaFounder
Sidhant KabraFounder

What Cekura does

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

Cekura's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cekura, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cekura

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Voice AI and Chat AI agents: Testing and Observability

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build a testing and observability platform for conversational AI agents to help teams automate QA throughout the agent lifecycle. Our product covers everything from pre-production simulation and evaluations to monitoring in production calls and integration with CI/CD pipelines. Customers use us to find issues, track performance changes, and ship AI voice and chat agents with confidence.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and operate in San Francisco, CA, and will stay based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team and most customers are based. Being in the hub of conversational AI and software innovation helps us recruit and support enterprises building voice and chat AI.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cekura YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Cekura's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Cekura would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.