Sherpa.ai key facts
Last updated- Legal entity
- Sherpa.ai (Sherpa Europe SL)
- Headquarters
- Spain (ES)
- Ownership
- Independent
- Founded
- 2012
- Data hosting
- Customer-defined
- Infrastructure
- SaaS platform with client-localized nodes
- Open source
- No
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Low (no US parent)
- Certifications
- ISO 27001, HIPAA (aligned)
- Replaces
- Google Cloud AI, Amazon SageMaker, Azure Machine Learning, PySyft (OpenMined)
About Sherpa.ai
Sherpa.ai is a leading European AI company that provides an enterprise SaaS platform for Federated Learning. Their technology allows organizations to train artificial intelligence models without the need to share or centralize raw data, keeping sensitive information localized behind the participants' own firewalls. This approach solves major privacy and regulatory hurdles in highly sensitive sectors. The platform is designed for large-scale enterprise deployments in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. By moving the AI algorithms to the data rather than the data to the algorithms, Sherpa.ai enables secure collaboration between different entities (e.g., multiple hospitals or banks) to create more accurate global models while maintaining total data sovereignty for each participant.
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