Empirik has emerged from stealth with a $21 million seed round backed by Sequoia, S32, Canapi Ventures and Alumni Ventures. Founded by former Sequoia Capital IT leaders Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati, the San Francisco startup is developing an AI agent for infrastructure change that captures engineering intent, models application dependencies and predicts a change’s potential blast radius before deployment. Led by CEO Kartik Chandrayana, Empirik can approve low-risk updates automatically while routing consequential changes through governed workflows across cloud, on-premises, Kubernetes, virtual machines, IAM, CI/CD and SaaS environments. Its customers include Guardant Health, S&P Global, Avahi Systems, TCBPay, a Fortune 50 consumer packaged goods company and a Fortune 500 financial data services leader.