XerpaAI Secures $6 Million Funding for AI-Driven Growth

XerpaAI, an AI-driven systematic agent, is designed to accelerate the growth of disruptive businesses by empowering user acquisition, amplifying brand influence, and maximizing distribution channels. The company's name is inspired by Sherpa guides, known for their expertise in assisting climbers in conquering Mount Everest. XerpaAI aims to help clients with disruptive innovations grow faster through AI and social capabilities, enabling them to outperform competitors. Operational since early 2025, XerpaAI has teams in Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Singapore, generating stable revenue.

XerpaAI's mission is to help clients with disruptive innovations grow faster through AI and social capabilities, ensuring they win in competitive markets—or risk being outpaced by rivals. Growth involves creating compelling content, distributing it through the right channels, gathering feedback, optimizing, and iterating—a continuous cycle. XerpaAI productizes this process by using AI to boost content creation efficiency, reducing weeks of work to minutes. It leverages a network of tens of thousands of KOLs/KOCs and community leaders, intelligently matching projects with influencers for efficient, high-impact distribution. Additionally, it provides comprehensive data feedback to refine growth strategies and even inform product iterations.

The idea for XerpaAI came from the strong, clear demand for growth strategies in the market. As serial entrepreneurs, the founders understood the mantra “keep growing or die.” In every funding round, 30%-50% of their budgets went to growth, yet many activities offered poor ROI. Highly innovative products, in particular, require market education through social relationships and person-to-person advocacy, which is time- and cost-intensive. The massive market opportunity and the timing of the AI boom made it clear that this vision could be executed more efficiently and at scale. In 2025, the company incorporated, integrated large-scale AI models, and consolidated disparate products and services. Recognizing their potential, they established operations in Japan and the U.S.

XerpaAI benchmarks against AppLovin, a Silicon Valley mobile tech company founded in 2012, which helps mobile app developers grow and monetize. Now valued at $150 billion, AppLovin was a “Sherpa guide” for the mobile internet era, driving mass adoption. XerpaAI is the Sherpa guide for the AI era, with a focus on social and AI capabilities—a next-generation, distinct version of AppLovin. In a few years, as AI permeates everything, XerpaAI aims to lead this shift. Given the market’s size and clarity, many startups will pursue similar goals, making them competitors.

XerpaAI's team is well-suited to execute this project. They excel at growth, particularly using social relationships and AI tools. The co-founders have driven growth for products with over 100 million users and supported over 100 projects for more than eight years. These experiences can now be productized through AI, scaling efficiency and impact for more projects. Currently, 80% of XerpaAI’s clients are from the blockchain industry, and 20% are from general AI startups, with a portion of their revenue in digital assets. Subjectively, they believe blockchain and AI will transform the internet and tech industries, surpassing the impact of mobile internet—and their “Sherpas” will grow alongside them.

XerpaAI announced a $6 million funding round led by UFLY Capital, a dynamic investment and incubation fund led by seasoned entrepreneurs, backing many promising projects. The funding has been fully received and will primarily support product development and promotion. The co-founder is a significant LP in UFLY Capital, and their substantial self-investment reflects their confidence in XerpaAI. This sizable investment also required support from other LPs and GPs, making it a collective vote of confidence. With existing client resources and rapidly growing revenue, XerpaAI expects to achieve positive cash flow soon. They anticipate a potential private funding round in 2026. If conditions are favorable, an IPO may be considered in the future.

XerpaAI interacts frequently with UXLINK, a social infrastructure and ecosystem supporting blockchain project growth. Legally, there is no relationship; XerpaAI is an independent company. However, their businesses are closely aligned. UXLINK is a key client, and many projects in its ecosystem are also XerpaAI clients. XerpaAI, in turn, is a vital contributor to UXLINK’s ecosystem. This is similar to how Circle’s stablecoin initially launched within Ethereum’s ecosystem, with close collaboration from Coinbase. As an application (XerpaAI) and infrastructure (UXLINK) with shared missions to drive growth, they complement each other, enabling close team collaboration and comprehensive support from UXLINK.

XerpaAI's current team structure is lean, as AI projects don’t require large headcounts, and they use AI tools extensively to boost efficiency. The core team is primarily in Tokyo, with additional members in Singapore and Silicon Valley. As their business and product grow rapidly, they plan to expand sales, compliance, and finance capabilities, and add more staff in Silicon Valley. Concurrently, they’re building a community to harness collective power and drive further growth.