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Empirik
AI agent that models blast radius and gates infrastructure change safely
About Empirik
Empirik.ai is a San Francisco company building an AI agent for proactive infrastructure change management. Initiated within Sequoia Capital in 2023 by Avon Puri (former Sequoia CDIO; prior roles at Rubrik and VMware) and Sudheer Dhurjati, with Kartik Chandrayana (ex-Salesforce infrastructure products; Quantum Metric CPO) appointed CEO in early 2026, Empirik models live environments across public cloud, on-prem, Kubernetes, VMs and SaaS so teams can understand change intent from pull requests, tickets or pipelines, compute blast radius before deploy, auto-approve low-risk changes, apply guardrails, or escalate high-risk ones. Named customers include Guardant Health, S&P Global and TCBPay. Empirik emerged from stealth on 2 September 2026 with a $21 million seed led by Sequoia Capital, S32, Canapi Ventures and Alumni Ventures. Sources: PR Newswire 2 Sep 2026; Sequoia partner note; empirik.ai.
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- 2023
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- AI
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