Coval raises $28M as enterprises push voice agents into production
Voice artificial intelligence testing startup Coval Inc. revealed today that it has raised $28 million in new funding to expand its platform as more enterprises put voice agents into production. Founded in 2024, Coval offers software that runs simulations, tracks live performance and labels data for AI voice and chat agents.
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- SiliconANGLE UPDATED 09:00 EDT / JUNE 24 2026 AI Coval raises $28M as enterprises push voice agents into production by Duncan Riley Voice artificial intelligence testing startup Coval Inc.
Companies use it to test agents before launch and to monitor them afterward.
- 's self-driving car unit, before starting the company.
- and voice AI infrastructure firm Deepgram Inc.
"Every company is going to have a voice agent just like they have a mobile app or a web app, but today, most enterprises don't have the infrastructure to deploy these systems with confidence," Hopkins said.
- The round was led by Norwest, with Base10 Partners, Twilio Ventures and Y Combinator also taking part.
Scott Beechuk, a partner at Norwest, said Hopkins was well placed to define how companies deploy voice agents, citing her work on autonomous driving at Waymo.
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- #revealed today that it has raised $28 million in new funding to expand its platform as more enterprises put voice agents into production.
- #revealed today that it has raised $28 million in new funding to expand its platform as more enterprises put voice agents into production.
- #Customers use it to cut manual quality-assurance work by up to 30 times and deploy agents as much as 10 times faster.
- #More than 60 organizations are now customers, the company said, among them Zoom Communications Inc.
SiliconANGLE UPDATED 09:00 EDT / JUNE 24 2026 AI Coval raises $28M as enterprises push voice agents into production by Duncan Riley Voice artificial intelligence testing startup Coval Inc. revealed today that it has raised $28 million in new funding to expand its platform as more enterprises put voice agents into production. Founded in 2024, Coval offers software that runs simulations, tracks live performance and labels data for AI voice and chat agents.
Companies use it to test agents before launch and to monitor them afterward. The case the company makes is that voice agents fail differently than ordinary software. They stumble over accents, background noise and dropped calls and they get tripped up by customers who do not say what a script expects.
Many enterprises still check this work by hand, which Coval says does not scale. Founder and Chief Executive Brooke Hopkins built evaluation infrastructure at Waymo LLC, Alphabet Inc. 's self-driving car unit, before starting the company.
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