Empirik.ai has launched from stealth with $21 million in funding. The funding comes from Sequoia Capital, S32, Canapi Ventures, and Alumni Ventures.
The company is building what it calls the first AI agent designed to manage infrastructure changes. It helps businesses understand what engineers want to change and assess how those changes could affect their systems.
Empirik.ai’s technology can also safely carry out complex infrastructure changes automatically. This allows companies to manage their infrastructure faster and with greater confidence.
The growth of AI coding agents has made software development much faster. However, the systems and infrastructure that support this software are still managed manually. Teams often depend on human reviews, approval boards, and ticket queues to make infrastructure changes.
As AI tools create code at a much faster pace, this manual process can slow everything down. It can also increase the risk of mistakes and serious problems in production systems. This creates a major gap between the speed of AI-powered development and the speed at which infrastructure can be safely managed.
“Running infrastructure at Salesforce taught me that teams were always forced to choose between moving fast or staying reliable,” said Kartik Chandrayana, CEO of empirik.ai. “Now, AI coding agents are shipping software at machine speed, but infrastructure is still managed by hand. You cannot put autonomous software upstream of manual infrastructure and expect the system to hold. empirik.ai builds the living memory and operational layer for infrastructure – giving teams the ground-truth context to understand intent, evaluate risk, and safely automate operations before changes cause downtime.”
“Managing infrastructure complexity is a problem that founders Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati have faced throughout their careers, and one that I am intimately familiar with from my many years at VMware,” said Bogomil Balkansky, Partner at Sequoia Capital. “That shared conviction is why Sequoia incubated empirik.ai. As AI takes over the software development process, and dramatically speeds it up, the old way of change management with service tickets and human approvals becomes obsolete. empirik.ai is the new foundation for change management at machine speed: it understands change intent and computes its potential impact before it’s executed. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Kartik, Avon, Sudheer, and the entire team as they make proactive, autonomous infrastructure a reality.”
Empirik.ai is an AI agent built to manage infrastructure changes. It continuously monitors and understands an entire application environment, including cloud systems, on-premise servers, Kubernetes, virtual machines, IAM, CI/CD tools, and SaaS platforms.
The platform helps engineering teams understand why a change is being made and what it could affect. It can identify the possible impact of a change and safely carry it out through controlled and approved workflows.
