Fundz
Funding, M&A and exec moves matched to your market, from $49/mo billed annually, or $79/mo quarterly. See plans and pricing.See plans →

Empirik, a Sequoia-incubated infrastructure AI startup, raises $21M in seed funding from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures to predict and prevent tech outages.

PRIVATESep 01, 2026•3 days ago

Amount Raised

$21 Million

Round Type

Seed

Information TechnologySoftwareArtificial IntelligenceCyber Security

Investors

Alumni VenturesCanapiSequoia Capital

Description

Empirik, an AI-powered observability platform founded by former Sequoia IT leaders Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati, has raised $21 million in seed funding to help infrastructure teams predict and prevent system outages before they occur. The startup, incubated by Sequoia Capital starting in 2023, tracks system changes and infers their potential ripple effects across entire infrastructure environments. Empirik functions as an autonomous infrastructure engineer, permitting low-risk changes while flagging dangerous updates for human review. The funding round was led by Sequoia alongside Canapi and Alumni Ventures.

Company Information

Company

Empirik

About

Empirik is an AI-powered observability tool that predicts and prevents infrastructure outages before they occur by tracking system changes and inferring their ripple effects across entire environments. Founded by former Sequoia IT leaders Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati, the company acts as an autonomous infrastructure engineer, permitting low-risk changes while flagging dangerous updates for human review. It helps DevOps and site reliability engineering teams automate routine troubleshooting and focus on higher-value priorities. The company has already secured customers including S&P Global, Guardant Health, and Fortune 500 companies.

Don't miss Empirik's next move

Get an email the moment Empirik raises, hires an exec, or expands, usually minutes after it happens.

One email per event. Unsubscribe anytime.

Predictive Intelligence
Strategic

ML-powered predictions for Empirik's next move

See what Strategic adds

Funding Insights

Based on industry data
VC-backed spending patterns
VC-backed companies spend 89% more on sales and 100% more on marketing than bootstrapped peers
Tech investment trends
83% of B2B companies plan digital investments, with 79% prioritizing customer experience tech

Empirik raised. Fundz records a round at a median of 3.6 minutes from the SEC filing, with the decision-maker attached.

145 of these a day, filtered to the companies you pick. $29 a month, billed annually, and if it does not pay for itself in a year we refund it.

Fundz is a real-time business intelligence platform powered by agentic AI that proactively delivers personalized daily signals, including funding rounds, executive changes, M&A activity, 13F institutional filings, SEC 8-K events, investor activity, and website modifications, based on each user's watchlist and ICP. A trusted data source at firms such as BlackRock, Oracle, Kleiner Perkins, LinkedIn, HubSpot, and Cloudflare, Fundz democratizes the institutional-grade intelligence that previously required a PitchBook or Bloomberg terminal. Features include FundzWatch™ for automated website change detection, Daily Briefing for AI-powered daily briefings, and unified cross-signal alerts across 200,000+ companies. Developers and data teams can access these signals programmatically via the Fundz Funding Data API, with transparent published pricing.