Monday, October 3, 2016, 11:44 AM
After four years at the ‘Beta’ label, Sherpa takes his first steps as a 100%personal assistant. We have had an organic double digit growth every year and we have included the feedback from the users until we have the product we wanted, says Xabi Uribe-Etxebarría, founder and CEO of Sherpa.
Sherpa will be in the market of virtual attendees who fall under the robot voice of Siri (Apple), distance from the voices of Microsoft and Google, Cortana and Google Now. Sherpa’s father leaves these figures that we are complementary, we have focused on the predictive part.
The 100% Spanish application uses artificial intelligence -algorithms to try to predict what the user wants to know. If you regularly go to a football field, you will interpret that you come from that team and inform you about all his new things, Xabi Uribe-Etxebarría explains.
The Sherpa machine room has three steps as explained on its website. The first state is the learning of algorithms. Sherpa controls the user’s flavors and searches online, we also want you to want to teach the artificial intelligence of the app, Xabi notes.
Without looking for information on the internet
In the second phase, artificial intelligence -algorithms to make the prediction and ultimately achieve the prediction of what the user needs at all times. We try to have to search for information on the internet. There is more and more and we have no time to see everything. That is our strong point.
The new version contains various updates that are aimed at improving the user experience thanks to the progress that is made in the predictive capacity of the app, which will result in an increasingly lower use of speech assignments.
Despite the completion of four years in the beta tape, the growth in the past year was exceptional and without a marketing campaign, the maker points out. The app was born for Android devices, although it has a twin brother in the Apple operating system for months.
5.8 million financing
With origin in Bilbao, Sherpa recently reached 5.8 million euros in financing to continue its expansion. A year ago the Spanish company reached an agreement with Samsung, so that the app was installed in the factory on the South Korean devices.
Now it joins Vodafone where all the customers of the company download Sherpa in their terminals can receive exclusive discounts and promotions within the Vodafone benefit program of the operator, he says in a statement.
Sherpa hopes to continue to climb the mountains to establish the Spanish market, although the founder is already looking on the other side of the Atlantic: we are already expanding the market to Latin -America.
