Expanse raises $5.3M
Expanse announced a Seed round of $5.3M on 16 September 2026. The company operates in Developer Tools and is based in United States. It was founded by Ismaeel Bashir, Co-founder and CEO. Announced 2 days ago.
Founder
Ismaeel Bashir
Co-founder and CEO, Expanse
Outreach angles
- -Bashir is one of four co-founders, all University of Edinburgh engineering graduates who previously ran large-scale compute infrastructure in quantitative finance and national supercomputing.
- -He personally developed a multimodal HPC resource-prediction system at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre before founding Expanse in 2025.
- -The new seed round follows a production deployment where Expanse identified nearly 8 million dollars of idle compute capacity for a customer in a single month.
Signals
SeedDev ToolsAI-NativeDeep TechSecond-Time Founder
Round details
Company: Expanse
Domain: expanse.sh
Amount: $5.3M
Stage: Seed
Industry: Developer Tools
Country: United States
Announced: 16 September 2026
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