Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen
Empirik, a startup incubated by Sequoia Capital, has launched with $21 million in seed funding to develop an AI-powered tool that predicts and prevents tech outages. Founded by former infrastructure leaders Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati, and led by CEO Kartik Chandrayana, Empirik tracks system changes to infer potential ripple effects across infrastructure.
Why it matters
This technology aims to significantly reduce costly and disruptive system outages for businesses, allowing DevOps and SRE teams to focus on higher-value tasks by automating routine troubleshooting.
Before joining Sequoia Capital in 2020 as chief digital and information officer, Avon Puri spent over a decade running infrastructure at Rubrik and VMware. Three years ago, as large language models began showing their true potential, Puri, alongside another Sequoia IT leader, Sudheer Dhurjati , recognized that AI could help autonomously solve a major challenge for infrastructure engineers—preventing tech outages before they occur.
The two tech veterans realized that instead of reacting to system failures after the fact, they could build a tool to predict them. This insight led them to build Empirik , a product that tracks system changes and infers their potential ripple effects across the entire infrastructure.
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