Empirik raises $21M to predict infrastructure outages

Empirik spun out of Sequoia with a $21 million seed round to predict infrastructure outages by tracking changes and their ripple effects across complex systems. TechCrunch’s launch report says its customers include S&P Global, Guardant Health, and a Fortune 500 consumer-goods company; its “traffic cop” model permits low-risk changes and sends dangerous ones to humans. Teams building agents should budget for an infrastructure-control plane alongside coding agents, not after their first outage—the archive’s agent-skill analysis makes the same case for operational context.