Empirik

AI Infrastructure · Observability · DevOps/SRE

Funding

Sequoia-incubated Empirik spins out with $21M seed to predict outages

AI coding tools now let developers ship changes faster than engineers can track their ripple effects across sprawling systems.

• Empirik spun out of Sequoia Capital as an independent company on September 1, 2026, having raised $21 million in seed funding from Sequoia, Canapi Ventures and Alumni Ventures.
• Empirik is an AI observability tool that tracks infrastructure changes and infers their ripple effects, acting as an autonomous 'traffic cop' that flags risky updates before deployment.
• Sequoia's Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati incubated the idea in 2023, then recruited Kartik Chandrayana, former Quantum Metric CPO and Salesforce observability VP, as CEO earlier this year.
• Since launching earlier this year, Empirik has already signed customers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 firms, including S&P Global and Guardant Health.
• Gartner projects AI SRE tool adoption will jump from under 5% of enterprises in 2025 to 85% by 2029, while warning 90% of those same organizations will suffer an AI-caused outage in that span.
• Unplanned outages already cost the world's largest companies a combined $600 billion a year, up 50% in just two years, per a Splunk and Cisco study with Oxford Economics.
• As AI coding assistants let developers ship changes at unprecedented speed, infrastructure risk is outpacing reactive monitoring, making predictive, pre-deployment change analysis increasingly critical.