Sherpa offers an API-driven platform to broadcast live and interactive videos and to centralize analytics for enterprise use across HR, training, marketing, and CRM. The product supports multiple formats, including AR/VR and 360°, and is designed to deliver personalized, in-context video segments via machine learning-driven content prescription. Customers plug into Sherpa’s platform to access unified data analytics and program administration tools. Sherpa reports about 30 customers, including Apple, Barclays, Disney, Gilead, Intel, and Levi Strauss, and sells mostly multiyear subscription contracts that begin in the low six figures. The company plans to expand its machine learning development to improve content prescription capabilities and will use new funding to further develop the video platform and increase sales and marketing. Sherpa was founded in 2011, is based in Redwood City, California, and currently has 22 employees. Sherpa Digital Media provides digital media solutions, infrastructure services, and media intelligence tools for enterprise clients across financial services, technology, consumer products, and healthcare. The company offers strategic video communications counsel and high-quality live and on-demand video production and syndication capabilities. Sherpa sits at the intersection of infrastructure, data security, and media analytics and counts clients such as Apple, Hitachi, JPMorgan Chase, McKinsey, and Stanford School of Medicine. Founded in July 2011 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Sherpa is an independent, privately held and profitable company. Following a new funding round, Sherpa plans to expand US and international operations, including a state-of-the-art studio in New York City, an expanded San Francisco office, and a satellite studio in London. The company will grow its San Francisco and New York teams to develop solutions helping brands navigate the changing digital media landscape.

Total raised

$6M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Aug 2017