Partnering with Traversal: Because every engineer remembers their first time … troubleshooting

https://sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-traversal-because-every-engineer-remembers-their-first-time-troubleshooting/
  • Troubleshooting is an AI problem layered on top of observability.
    • Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, Cribl print billions — yet RCA stays unsolved.
  • Traversal automates root-cause analysis with LLMs + causal ML.
    • Swarms of parallel investigations + proprietary statistical tools.
  • Production incidents cost hours/days in Slack war rooms today.
    • SRE/DevOps teams burned out; revenue and customer trust hit.
  • Founders: 3 PhDs (MIT/Berkeley), causal ML + RL expertise, ex-Citadel quant.
    • Anish Agarwal (Caltech), Ahmed Lone (Citadel Securities), Raaz, Raj.
  • Early customers: DigitalOcean, Amex, Cloudways, Eventbrite — within ~1 year.

Bogomil Balkansky and Charlie Curnin (Sequoia Capital) · 2025-06-18 · Read on sequoiacap.com

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