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YC Root AccessWhat It Actually Takes to Deploy a Voice Agent to a Fortune 500
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- June 24, 2026
- Duration
- 30m
- Channel
- YC Root Access
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Brooke Hopkins is the founder and CEO of Coval (S24), a simulation and observability platform for voice agents that helps enterprises test, monitor, and evaluate AI-powered phone systems at scale — working with customers like Perplexity and Deepgram to process tens of millions of calls per month — and has just raised a $28.2M Series A. In this fireside, Brooke sat down with Harj Taggar, Managing Partner at YC to talk about how her years building evaluation infrastructure and developer tools at Waymo turned out to be surprisingly transferable to the world of voice agents, why voice is emerging as the first truly productionized use case for autonomous agents, and what it took to go from a broader evals idea to a deeply focused enterprise platform — including the moment a customer offered to pay her before she'd written a single line of code. https://www.coval.dev Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs
SPEAKERS
Harj Taggar
hostPartner at Y Combinator and host of YC Root Access.
Brooke Hopkins
guestFounder and CEO of Coval, focused on simulation/evaluation for production voice agents.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Harj Taggar and Brooke Hopkins, What It Actually Takes to Deploy a Voice Agent to a Fortune 500 explores Scaling enterprise voice agents with simulation, evaluation, and observability infrastructure Coval provides simulation and observability so companies can test voice agents at scale before exposing real customers and monitor behavior across tens of millions of production calls.
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