Sherpa

Travel Technology
1open role
3backers · Plug and Play, Golden Ventures
$280kgrants · 1 grant · CORDIS
34stories in the press

Overview

Sherpa is a travel technology company that provides an API and tools showing travel requirements for countries worldwide. It also offers eVisas, eTAs and arrival forms for more than 87 countries as an ancillary service that airlines and travel sellers embed in their own booking flow. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Key facts

As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 1 open role at Sherpa. Sherpa is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Open roles
1Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
Headquarters
Toronto, CanadaAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
Technologies in its job postings
5Named in its job postings

Funding and backers

Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
Grants
$280k
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
3
Plug and Play, Golden Ventures
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Nov 1, 2024 Won a grant $280k · CORDIS Nov 2015 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.32%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Grant Nov 2024 $280k — CORDIS
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs

≈ $77k – $181k per year (Estimated) · Remote (South Africa) · Contractor
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
53/100
Stable
Open positions
1
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
100% ▲

Financials

Total raised
$280k
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2024 $280k Details

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Sherpa over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
5
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
72/100
Databases
Azure SQL Database
Cloud & platforms
Azure
Developer tools
Azure Data Factory
Practices & domains
CI/CD
VPN
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Connections

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Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors3
Relay VenturesVia a fund
35 portfolio companies: VTS, Woveo, func and 32 more
Plug and PlayVia a fund
2741 portfolio companies

News

News NewsBytes 1 month ago
Pocket Entertainment
Rohan Nayak revealed that Sherpa, an AI writing system, has enabled the creation of 161 hit shows and $100 million in intellectual property for Pocket Entertainment.
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News NBC News 5 months ago
Sherpa missing for a week on Mount Everest with no food, oxygen is rescued while crawling to base camp
Dawa Sherpa was among the last climbers on the mountain as the climbing season came to an end and the route was dismantled.
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News PBS News 1 year ago
Kanchha Sherpa, last surviving member of history-making Mount Everest trek, dies at 92
Kanchha Sherpa was among the 35 members of the team that put New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay atop the 29,032-foot peak on May 29, 1953. A mountain guide for most of his life, he was one of three Sherpas to reach the final
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News Rolling Stone 1 year ago
These 7 Sherpa Jackets Get Our Fashion Editors' Compliments, Every Time
We rate and review the best sherpa-lined jackets for men, including popular picks from Levi's, Wrangler, Flint & Tinder, and Patagonia.
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News Business Insider 2 years ago
The female Sherpa who has climbed Mount Everest the most times reveals her darkest secrets
Lhakpa Sherpa has summited Mount Everest a record-setting 10 times. But relatively few people know her most harrowing moments weren't on the mountain.
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News Yahoo Entertainment 2 years ago
The female Sherpa who has climbed Mount Everest the most times reveals her darkest secrets
Lhakpa Sherpa has summited Mount Everest a record-setting 10 times. But relatively few people know her most harrowing moments weren't on the mountain.
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Report
News k2-fsa-web-assembly-tts-sherpa-onnx-en.static.hf.space 2 years ago
Next-gen Kaldi and WebAssembly with sherpa-ONNX for Text-to-speech Read more
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Toronto Canada
HQ

How to cite this page

Alion, "Sherpa: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/joinsherpa

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