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Cekura

Voice AI and Chat AI agents: Testing and Observability

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
Active Founders
Tarush Agarwal
Tarush Agarwal
Founder
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 Gupta
Shashij Gupta
Founder
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 Kabra
Sidhant Kabra
Founder
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.
Company Launches
Cekura Red Teaming: Stress-test your AI agents for Jailbreaks, Bias, Toxicity and more
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Hi Everyone! We are Sidhant, Shashij, and Tarush, co-founders of Cekura👋

TL;DR: We have launched Cekura Red Teaming for enterprises and startups building Conversational AI in compliance-heavy sectors like BFSI, Healthcare, Legal, etc

Watch our launch video here or book a call here

Problem:. Enterprise security teams are blocking deployments because manual, vibe-based testing doesn’t provide enough assurance against adversarial users. Whether it’s a user bypassing a paywall, tricking a bot into giving legal advice, or social-engineering it into leaking company secrets - the attack surface of conversational AI is massive.

Solution:

Scalable, Automated Red Teaming: Cekura allows you to run thousands of adversarial simulations in minutes. We act as the "bad actor," pushing your agent's logic to its limits across every major vulnerability category:

  • 🔓 Jailbreaking: We simulate sophisticated "prompt injection" attacks to see if your agent will ignore its instructions or reveal its system prompt.
  • ⚖️ Bias & Fairness: We test for hidden biases in financial, medical, or recruitment advice to ensure your agent stays compliant and fair.
  • 🤬 Toxicity: We try to provoke your agent into unprofessional or offensive behaviour.
  • 🛡️ PII & Data Leakage: We attempt to extract sensitive data like credit card numbers, internal keys, or user data that your agent shouldn't have the authority to share

Red Teaming as a Service (RTaaS): Beyond our standard library of thousands of scenarios, we also deploy our Forward Deployed Engineers to build personalised adversarial test cases tailored to your specific industry and use case (HIPAA compliance for healthcare, PCI DSS for fintech, etc)

Ready to Security Test your Voice & Chat AI Agents?

The Team:

We met over eight years ago during our undergraduate studies at IIT Bombay.

Tarush comes from quantitative finance, where he worked on simulations for ultra-low latency trading strategies (think nanoseconds!).

Shashij has previously researched NLP at Google Research and is the first author of a paper on testing AI systems reliably, which has 50+ citations from his work at ETH Zurich.

Sidhant comes from a consulting background advising CXOs at Fortune 500 companies in FMCG and medical devices. He managed P&L in a leading contact centre.

Previous Launches
Ship reliable voice and chat agents faster with automated simulation, evaluation, observability and analytics
Launch reliable voice agents in minutes not weeks.
Jobs at Cekura
San Francisco, CA, US
$100K - $150K
0.20% - 0.50%
3+ years
Bengaluru, KA, IN / Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN
₹3M - ₹5M INR
0.20% - 0.50%
3+ years
Cekura
Founded:2024
Batch:Fall 2024
Team Size:15
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Nicolas Dessaigne