As engineering teams race to bring AI agents to market, Coval is tackling a significant bottleneck: slow, manual testing. The company, which provides automated testing for chat, voice, and other objective-oriented AI systems, has closed a $28.0M Series A funding round. Norwest led the investment, backing Coval's approach to boost test coverage and accelerate development through automated simulation and evaluation techniques inspired by the autonomous vehicle industry.
Coval Raises $28.0M Series A
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Norwest · Jun 24, 2026When Coval Founder Brooke Hopkins first joined Waymo in 2020, many people believed autonomous vehicles would never be on the road. Brooke led the evaluation infrastructure team responsible for running millions of simulations to prove that such a future could exist.
From coding the first evaluation system to managing 20 petabytes of data, Brooke built simulation scheduling infrastructure across distributed compute and owned everything from low-level database schema to the developer tools engineers relied on every day. Today, that work speaks for itself as Waymo operates autonomous vehicles across the U.S. with plans to expand internationally. When Brooke tu
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