
Sherpa
Your guide to travel identification requirements — move freely, wherever life takes you.
Sherpa was founded in 2015, is headquartered in Beijing, Canada, lists 51–200 employees, and has $11.0M in recorded funding across 2 rounds.
- Headquarters
- Beijing
- Employees
- 51–200
- Founded
- 2015
- Business Model
- B2B
- Website
- joinsherpa.com
- Total Funding
- $11.0M
- Last Round
- $8.5M Series AMay 2021
- Rounds
- 2
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About
Sherpa° (legal entity: Visa Run Inc.) is a Canadian travel-technology company on a mission to help travellers move freely around the world by providing comprehensive, AI-powered travel identification and visa requirements. The company's platform connects to 64+ government systems through a single universal API, enabling airlines, online travel agencies, cruise lines, and corporations to deliver personalized entry requirements, eVisa applications, health declarations, and eTA status checks directly within their customer journeys. Sherpa powers eVisa and travel documentation systems for over 30 international airlines — including British Airways, American Airlines, Condor, flynas, and Icelandair — and has achieved a +99% success rate on visa applications with a Net Promoter Score above 70. The platform is SOC2 certified, PIPEDA and GDPR compliant, and built on modern cloud infrastructure for security and scalability. Sherpa won recognition from Plug and Play (Summer 9 cohort), Intelak/Emirates (Cohort 7, 2019), and Hangar 51/British Airways (2019). Investors and advisors include Relay Ventures, Globalive, Narrative Fund, TSVC, Plug and Play, N49P, and Golden Ventures.
Summary
Sherpa is a Travel & Hospitality company based in Beijing, Canada, founded in 2015. It lists 51–200 employees. It has raised $11.0M in total across 2 rounds, most recently a $8.5M Series A round in May 2021. Investors include True Ventures, Narrative Fund and Relay Ventures.
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Funding History
May 2021
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Funding: Seed through Series A. Amounts, valuations, and investors where available.
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