Xpander raises $7.5 million for AI management and governance

AI enablement platform Xpander has raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round led by Pico Venture Partners, with participation from Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, and Seedil.

Founded in 2024 by former AWS engineers David Twizer, Moriel Pahima, and Ran Sheinberg, the San Francisco-based startup offers a vendor-neutral, universal agent harness that lets organisations adopt, build, run, secure, and manage AI agents across their environments. The platform provides governance and on-demand interface rendering, and includes Omni, an agentic Forward Deployed Engineer that supports creating agent teammates and collaborative multi-agent workflows.

The company plans to use the investment to accelerate market penetration.