Sequoia Capital invests in Empirik
Funding Provisional 90% confidence first seen
TechCrunch reports that Sequoia Capital incubated and then invested in Empirik, which spun out as an independent company after raising $21 million in seed funding. The round included Sequoia as an investor, along with Canapi and Alumni Ventures, and the funding supports an observability tool designed to predict infrastructure outages by tracking system changes and inferring likely ripple effects. This matters because it positions Sequoia-backed “agentic” infrastructure monitoring as a proactive alternative to traditional post-incident observability.
The deal
Empirik $21M Seed · announced 1 Sep 2026
Investors Sequoia Capital Canapi Alumni Ventures
Deal terms as reported in the coverage below.