# Empirik raises $21 million seed round for AI outage-prevention platform

_Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 1:10 PM EDT · AI, Capital · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

Empirik raised a $21 million seed round and is spinning out from Sequoia Capital, according to the supplied TechCrunch summary. The company uses AI to predict and prevent IT outages by analyzing system changes and their effects. The summary identifies founder Avon Puri's prior infrastructure roles at Rubrik and VMware but gives no customer, revenue, or deployment details.

## Sources

- [Techmeme](https://www.techmeme.com/260901/p31#a260901p31)

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