GoKawiilSequoia spins out Empirik with $21M to preempt IT outages using AI
Empirik, incubated inside Sequoia Capital since 2023 by former infrastructure executives Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati, is now launching as an independent company with $21 million in seed funding from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures. The startup, now led by CEO Kartik Chandrayana, builds software that monitors infrastructure changes and predicts how they might cascade into failures before they happen. It already counts startups and Fortune 500 firms like S&P Global among its customers.
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Most observability tools alert engineers after something breaks, but Empirik aims to intervene before a change causes damage, acting like an automated gatekeeper for system updates. As enterprises manage increasingly complex, interdependent infrastructure, tools that can autonomously flag risky changes could reduce costly downtime and free engineering teams from reactive firefighting.
- Empirik raised $21M seed funding and is spinning out of Sequoia Capital as an independent startup.
- The product predicts outages by tracing how infrastructure changes ripple across systems, rather than reacting after failures.
- It already serves both startups and Fortune 500 companies, including S&P Global, under new CEO Kartik Chandrayana.
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