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Xpander Raises $7.5 Million for AI Management and Governance

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.

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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...

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