Expanse raises $5.3 million to eliminate guesswork from AI computing

By Richard Snee, on behalf of The Crane Team

AI needs more compute. But first, we need to make better use of the compute we already have.

Every AI workload begins with an educated guess: how many GPUs, how much CPU and memory, and how much time will it take or need? Get it wrong and valuable infrastructure sits idle, costs increase, or workloads fail.

Expanse is changing that.

Expanse software predicts exactly what an AI workload needs before it runs, helping organisations get more from their existing infrastructure while reducing over-allocation, failed jobs and unnecessary investment in additional compute.

We’re proud to lead Expanse’s $5.3 million seed round, alongside PXN Ventures and a fantastic group of angel investors from across the tech community.

Why we're excited

Compute is becoming one of the world’s most valuable, constrained, and misunderstood resources. But the next chapter of AI infrastructure won’t just be about building bigger clusters and adding more GPUs. It will also be about using them more intelligently.

Expanse is building a new intelligence layer for compute, moving infrastructure from observing what happened after a workload runs to predicting what it needs before it begins. We believe that shift from observability to predictability --and certainty-- can unlock enormous value across AI infrastructure, quantitative finance, life sciences, research and high-performance computing.

It’s exactly the kind of foundational technology we love to back.

Congratulations to Ismaeel Bashir, Nikodem Bieniek, Eren Mendi, Yafet Melake, and the entire Expanse team. We’re excited to be on the journey with you.

Read the Expanse story here.

Link to the press release here.