Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen
The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.
TL;DR
- Empirik, incubated by Sequoia Capital, aims to predict and prevent tech outages using AI.
- The product tracks system changes and infers their potential impact on infrastructure.
- It acts as an autonomous engineer, managing changes and flagging high-risk updates.
- Empirik allows DevOps and site reliability engineers to offload routine troubleshooting.
- The startup has secured $21 million in seed funding from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures.
- Customers include startups and Fortune 500 companies like S&P Global and Guardant Health.
- Empirik seeks to automate tasks for infrastructure engineers, similar to how Cursor aids software developers.