Empirik
Empirik is an AI change-observability platform for enterprise infrastructure engineers, incubated inside Sequoia Capital since 2023 by former Sequoia Chief Digital and Information Officer Avon Puri and Sequoia VP of Technology and Architecture Sudheer Dhurjati, and led by CEO Kartik Chandrayana, formerly Chief Product Officer at Quantum Metric.
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Empirik is an AI change-observability platform for enterprise infrastructure engineers, incubated inside Sequoia Capital since 2023 by former Sequoia Chief Digital and Information Officer Avon Puri and Sequoia VP of Technology and Architecture Sudheer Dhurjati, and led by CEO Kartik Chandrayana, formerly Chief Product Officer at Quantum Metric. It captures engineers' intent from pull requests and deployment pipelines, computes the blast radius of infrastructure changes before execution, and autonomously permits, guardrails or escalates changes for human review.
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Company· 9
Founders / team· 3
Funding history
- 2026-09-02Seed$21M
Investors · Sequoia Capital, Canapi Ventures, Alumni VenturesSource · prnewswire.com ↗
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