Earlier this year, two 23-year-old engineers quit their jobs at Big Tech and founded their company Bluejay. Just a few months later, they raised $4 million in seed funding for an AI agent testing startup.
The San Francisco-based company offers quality assurance to AI agents focused on voice agents. Bluejay Cofounders' Rohan Vasishth and Faraz Siddiqi left Amazon and Microsoft respectively and graduated from Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch.
Vasishth told Business Insider that it chose to remove its first job from university as AI promises are rolling out rapidly.
“You don't need to stay here for six years to learn about it,” he said. “In fact, I probably just do it and probably learn about it faster.”
Floodgate led the Bluejay seed round and introduced participation from Y Combinator, Peak XV and Homebrew. Executives such as Hippocratic AI, Deepgram and Pathai also invested in the company.
Bluejay stress tests AI agents by generating synthetic customers that can fight against a variety of languages, accents, background noise and personality. It states that it can simulate a month's worth of AI agents interaction in just a few minutes.
Vasishth and Siddiqi are building a company in San Francisco “Hacker House” along with their first employers, the founding engineer said.
Vasishth says it helps the company's “super shocking” attitude, lighthearted branding and mascot stand out among its competitors. For example, the duo graduated from YC with Bluejay's Onesie and handed out flyers as grassroots marketing operations when competitors sponsored the meeting.
The company takes its name from the fact that it is a repeatedly ping agent, like a bird warning each other of danger, Vasishth told Business Insider. In addition to testing, Bluejay helps clients monitor the performance of their AI agents.
Bluejay will use the new funds to hire developers, researchers and sales representatives.
Blue Jay is barely alone in QA as a fleet of companies, including BrainTrust, Arize AI and Galileo, aims to dive into the spread of AI agents.
Let's take a look at the pitch deck that Bluejay was using to raise a $4 million seed round. Certain slides have been edited and deleted to allow decks to be published.
