# Empirik

> AI that predicts infrastructure outage ripple effects from system changes before alerts fire.

## Why it 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.

## Profile

- **Latest funding:** Seed — $21M (September 2026)
- **Latest known valuation:** Not publicly disclosed
- **Total disclosed equity funding:** $21M
- **Stage:** seed
- **Status:** private
- **Industries:** enterprise-saas, ai-ml
- **Coverage:** full
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-02
- **Latest funding investors:** Sequoia Capital, Canapi, Alumni Ventures

## 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

- Seed · $21M · September 2026
  Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/sequoia-incubated-empirik-launches-with-21m-to-predict-outages-before-they-happen/

## Investors in our directory

- https://venturecapitaltracker.com/fund/sequoia

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- https://venturecapitaltracker.com/2026-empirik-21m-seed-sequoia
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**Last updated:** September 2, 2026

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