AI enablement platform Xpander has announced raising $7.5 million in a seed funding round led by Pico Venture Partners.
Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, and Seedil also invested in the San Francisco, California-based startup.
Xpander was founded in 2024 by former AWS engineers David Twizer (CEO), Moriel Pahima (CTO), and Ran Sheinberg (CPO).
The startup has built a platform that allows organizations to adopt, build, run, secure, and manage AI agents across their environments.
Xpander’s platform relies on a vendor-neutral, universal agent harness that executes agents as portable workloads and securely renders interfaces on demand.
This infrastructure provides organizations with governance over AI agents and with the flexibility to build, deploy, and manage them across products, workflows, and data.
The startup also provides its customers with an agentic Forward Deployed Engineer called Omni that enables the creation of agent teammates for employees, allows teams to build agents, and supports collaborative multi-agent workflows.
Xpander plans to use the seed investment to accelerate market penetration.
“Every company is working to harness the power of AI and become AI-native, yet most find it unattainable. Our experience at AWS has inspired us to build a platform that smoothly facilitates AI migration and adoption for organizations, to allow them to grow their businesses faster than ever before,” said Twizer.
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