Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen

Empirik, a platform specializing in technical infrastructure observability, has announced its launch as an independent company after raising $21 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Canapi and Alumni Ventures. Founded by Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati, both former Sequoia IT leaders, the company aims to address major challenges faced by infrastructure engineers. The platform functions as an intelligent observability tool that tracks system changes and infers their potential ripple effects, acting as an autonomous "traffic cop" that flags dangerous updates for human review while managing low-risk changes. Kartik Chandrayana, formerly of Quantum Metric and Salesforce, was appointed as CEO earlier this year. According to Sequoia partner Bogomil Balkansky, most existing observability tools fail to understand complex system dependencies, whereas Empirik focuses on tracking changes across massive environments. The platform allows DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams to offload routine troubleshooting and focus on higher-value priorities. Since launching earlier this year, Empirik has already secured a customer base ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.