Xpander Raises $7.5M Seed

Xpander, a San Francisco, California-based startup developing infrastructure to help enterprises scale AI agent deployment, has raised $7.5 million in a Seed funding round. The company, which specializes in bridging the gap between experimental AI pilots and full-scale operational deployment, will use the new capital to expand its reach in the enterprise software market.

Investors

The round was led by Pico Venture Partners, with participation from Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, and SeedIL.

Xpander Use of Funds

Xpander intends to use the capital to support the development and deployment of its universal agent harness and its Omni enterprise AI agent. The funding will assist the company in scaling its platform which allows organizations to manage AI agents across disparate cloud environments and models without requiring significant infrastructure restructuring.

About Xpander

Founded in 2024 by former AWS engineers David Twizer, Moriel Pahima, and Ran Sheinberg, Xpander develops infrastructure designed to help enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI agents. The company's platform features a universal agent harness, a model-, framework-, and cloud-agnostic runtime that enables AI agents to operate as portable workloads within a customer's existing environment. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Xpander is also developing Omni, an enterprise AI agent positioned as an agentic Forward Deployed Engineer.

Funding Details

Company Website: https://xpander.ai

Company: Xpander
Raised: $7.5M
Round: Seed
Funding Date: August 17, 2026
Lead Investor: Pico Venture Partners
Additional Investors: Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, SeedIL
Software Category: Enterprise AI Infrastructure
Source: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjep4kgvme