Germany-based Sherpa, a startup
developing an AI operating system for external workforce management, has raised
$2.2 million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Seedcamp, DN Capital,
Activant Capital and Brighteye, with participation from several operator
angels.
Founded by Tristan Deschler, Tim Altpeter and Max Lang, Sherpa is building a platform to manage the full
lifecycle of external work, from request to payment, designed to bring
contractors, freelancers, consultants, service providers and AI agents into a
single operating system.
As enterprises adopt AI agents
alongside external workers, they encounter similar operational requirements
around onboarding, compliance, performance management and oversight.
Sherpa’s
platform provides a unified framework for managing both human and AI-driven
work while enabling organisations to maintain control over data, governance and
compliance. The company aims to help enterprises and managed service providers
(MSPs) streamline these processes through a single operating model.
Deschler said organisations are
increasingly managing workforces that combine employees, contractors, service
providers and AI agents, while many of the systems they rely on today were not
designed for this level of operational complexity:
There is a huge demand for a
single platform where all work can be requested, governed, delivered, and
measured, regardless of whether it’s performed by a person or an AI agent. We
believe workforce management is evolving into work orchestration, and Sherpa is
leading the infrastructure to power that transition.
Sherpa plans to use the funding to
expand enterprise deployments, strengthen integrations with enterprise
platforms, and advance compliance initiatives.