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Empirik funding, valuation and investors
AI that predicts infrastructure outage ripple effects from system changes before alerts fire.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Seed
$21M · September 2026
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
$21M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
seed · San Francisco, California, USA
Overview
Empirik tracks changes across enterprise infrastructure and infers downstream failure risk before incidents. Originators Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati built the product while at Sequoia IT; TechCrunch reported a $21M seed from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures on September 1, 2026.
Why Empirik is interesting
September 1, 2026 $21M seed as a Sequoia-incubated spinout — built first inside Sequoia’s own IT environment, now led by ex–Quantum Metric/Salesforce observability exec Kartik Chandrayana with named customers including S&P Global.
Product & use cases
Change-risk prediction and autonomous guardrails for infrastructure updates.
- Pre-deploy change risk scoring
- Autonomous allow/guardrail/escalate workflows for SRE
- Complementary layer beside AI SRE tooling
Key facts
- $21M seed from Sequoia, Canapi, Alumni Ventures (Sep 1, 2026)
- Named customers: S&P Global, Guardant Health, major CPG (TechCrunch)
- Incubated inside Sequoia IT from 2023
Funding history (newest first)
Seed
2026-09 $21M- Sequoia Capital (lead)
- Canapi (participant)
- Alumni Ventures (participant)
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