Sequoia Capital-incubated startup Empirik has launched as an independent company after raising $21 million in seed funding from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures. Founded by Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati, Empirik aims to predict and prevent technology outages before they occur by tracking system changes and inferring their potential ripple effects across entire infrastructures. The product is positioned as an autonomous “traffic cop” that permits low-risk changes, sets guardrails on larger ones, and flags the most dangerous updates for human review, thereby allowing DevOps and site reliability engineering teams to focus on higher-value priorities.

Empirik’s approach is framed as a new type of observability tool that addresses the limitations of existing solutions in understanding complex system dependencies. Since its launch earlier this year, the company has attracted customers ranging from startups to several Fortune 500 companies, including S&P Global, Guardant Health, and a major consumer packaged goods firm. Empirik’s founders and Sequoia partners envision the tool automating certain tasks for infrastructure engineers, similar to how AI-powered coding assistants have accelerated software development, thereby enabling engineers to work significantly faster in the face of constant system changes. Source

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