Empirik, a Sequoia-incubated infrastructure AI startup, raises $21M in seed funding from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures to predict and prevent tech outages.
Amount Raised
$21 Million
Round Type
Seed
Investors
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.
Who else raised in Cyber Security and Software around the same time
Companies in the same sectors as Empirik that raised within 45 days of this round, from Fundz verified event records.
- Jinghua Privacy Computing raised $15M (Pre-Series A) on October 13, 2026.
- Amelle raised $314K (Seed) on October 3, 2026.
- RemoteThreat raised $7M (Pre-Seed) on September 29, 2026.
- IPercept raised $17M (Series A) on September 29, 2026.
- MIND Security raised $72M (Series B) on September 17, 2026.
- Bynario raised $2.4M (Pre-Seed) on September 10, 2026.
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