[Empirik, Incubated by Sequoia, Secures $21 Million Seed Funding to Predict System Failures Using AI] According to TechCrunch, infrastructure prediction startup Empirik, incubated by Sequoia Capital, has officially launched as an independent entity and completed a $21 million seed funding round. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures. The platform leverages AI to track system changes and predict potential impacts, issuing warnings before failures occur. It acts as an autonomous 'traffic cop'—approving low-risk changes, setting guardrails for large-scale changes, and flagging risky updates for manual review. Empirik has already served Fortune 500 companies such as S&P Global and Guardant Health, aiming to provide infrastructure engineers with efficiency gains similar to what tools like Cursor and Claude Code offer developers.