Empirik, an AI observability platform that predicts infrastructure outages before they happen, spun out of Sequoia Capital on September 1 with a $21 million seed round led by its own incubator, joined by Canapi Ventures and Alumni Ventures.
Empirik was born inside Sequoia and targets a very specific problem for operations teams: most infrastructure outages don't start as a random failure — they start as a config change, a deployment, or an update that looks harmless until it cascades. Empirik's product monitors those infrastructure changes and infers their downstream impact before they turn into an incident alert.
The company describes its own system as an autonomous "traffic cop" for infrastructure changes: it lets low-risk changes through without friction, throws up guardrails around medium-risk changes, and flags the most dangerous changes for human review before they're applied. It's a complementary layer to AI SRE platforms like Resolve and Sequoia-backed Traversal, rather than a direct competitor.
The founding team is led by CEO Kartik Chandrayana, former head of product at Quantum Metric, alongside Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati, both former Sequoia IT leaders. Early customers already include S&P Global and Guardant Health, two organizations running high-volume, mission-critical infrastructure.
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