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.
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