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Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M seed funding to predict infrastructure outages
Key points
- Empirik raised $21 million in seed funding.
- The company was incubated by Sequoia Capital.
- Empirik's tool uses AI to predict and prevent infrastructure outages.
- It tracks system changes and their impact across environments.
Empirik Secures Seed Funding and Launches Independently
Empirik announced its spin-out as an independent company after raising $21 million in seed funding. The funding round included investments from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures. This launch follows a period of incubation by Sequoia Capital, where the concept for Empirik was developed.
AI-Powered Outage Prevention
Founded by former Sequoia IT leaders Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati, Empirik's core offering is an AI-driven observability tool. This tool is designed to predict IT infrastructure outages before they occur by monitoring system changes and inferring their potential impact across an entire infrastructure. Kartik Chandrayana, formerly of Quantum Metric and Salesforce, was recruited as CEO earlier this year.
Addressing Complex System Dependencies
According to Sequoia partner Bogomil Balkansky, existing observability tools often struggle with understanding complex system dependencies. Empirik aims to address this gap by focusing on tracking changes across large environments. The system acts as an autonomous 'traffic cop,' allowing low-risk changes, setting guardrails for larger ones, and flagging dangerous updates for human review.
Impact on DevOps and SRE Teams
By automating the prediction and prevention of outages, Empirik intends to offload routine troubleshooting tasks from DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams. This allows these teams to focus on higher-value priorities. The company's goal is to automate infrastructure tasks, similar to how tools like Cursor and Claude Code automate software development.
Early Customer Adoption
Since its launch earlier this year, Empirik has acquired customers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Notable clients include S&P Global, Guardant Health, and a major consumer packaged goods company. The company emphasizes that as AI accelerates software development, tools that help infrastructure engineers manage constant system changes are increasingly vital.
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Empirik, a startup incubated by Sequoia Capital, has launched as an independent company after securing $21 million in seed funding from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures. The company develops an AI-powered observability tool designed to predict and prevent IT infrastructure outages by tracking system changes and their potential ripple effects.