Xpander has announced a $7.5 million Seed round led by Pico Venture Partners with participation from Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, and SeedIL. The funding will be used to accelerate Xpander's market penetration with its turnkey, vendor-neutral, all-in-one AI enablement platform. The company also introduced Omni, its enterprise AI agent, which achieved a 90.9% score on the GAIA benchmark.
Xpander raises $7.5M Seed led by Pico Venture Partners.
Omni enterprise AI agent achieved 90.9% on GAIA benchmark.
Vendor-neutral platform works across major cloud environments and AI models.
Founded by former AWS Principal Engineers with enterprise cloud experience.
Platform provides governance, lifecycle management, and universal agent harness.
SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant.
Enterprise AI adoption is now universal, but meaningful deployment remains limited as organizations struggle to adapt their existing workflows and infrastructure to AI-driven operations. According to McKinsey, 88% of organizations use AI in at least one business function, yet only around 1% describe their deployments as mature and roughly two-thirds remain stuck in pilots. Xpander bridges this gap, helping organizations overcome the infrastructure, security, and governance challenges that have historically limited enterprise AI adoption. Its platform seamlessly integrates into any company's operations and is available across major cloud environments and AI models.
At the core of Xpander's platform is its universal agent harness, a model, framework, and cloud-agnostic runtime that executes AI agents as portable workloads within a customer's own environment while securely rendering agent interfaces on demand. The same infrastructure that gives enterprises deployment flexibility also powers governance. Organizations can rapidly build, deploy, and manage production-grade custom agentic applications with centralized visibility and lifecycle management built in. Omni, its flagship agentic Forward Deployed Engineer, simplifies complex user tasks into autonomous actions while supporting collaborative multi-agent workflows.
"Every company is working to harness the power of AI and become AI-native, yet most find it unattainable," said David Twizer, CEO and co-founder of Xpander. "Our experience at AWS, helping large enterprises move to the cloud in complex multi-year projects, 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."
"We are excited to join Xpander's journey in solving the biggest problem that enterprises and decision makers are facing when attempting to adopt AI," said Tal Yatsiv, General Partner at Pico Venture Partners. "The market is inflated with point solutions but lacking platforms that enable true enterprise-wide AI transformation. We chose Xpander due to the team's unique experience and expertise and their proven early results."
About Xpander
Founded in 2024 by former AWS Principal Engineers David Twizer (CEO), Moriel Pahima (CTO), and Ran Sheinberg (CPO), xpander.ai provides a vendor-neutral platform that enables enterprises to build, deploy, and govern AI agents across any model, cloud, or framework. The company also developed Omni, its flagship agent and agentic Forward Deployed Engineer, which helps organizations rapidly build and manage production-grade AI applications.
