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Unlock wasted GPU capacity.

P26·Spring 2026·B2B·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 4·Founded 2025

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Expanse unlocks wasted GPU capacity. We recover idle compute through three capabilities: resource prediction (right-sizing job submissions before they reach the scheduler), optimisation suggestions (code and config changes researchers can apply themselves), and failure prediction (catching jobs that will fail before they consume hours of GPU time). We’re four engineers. We ran HPC and GPU training workloads at the largest quant funds and national supercomputing centres. We faced this problem first hand and the only fix was to over-provision and burn millions. Ismaeel built the first multimodal HPC resource predictor as research at EPCC (Edinburgh’s Parallel Computing Centre), which beat every published baseline. This is the tool we wish we had.

Founders

  • Ismaeel Bashir· Founder

    Ismaeel is co-founder and CEO of Expanse. Built the first multimodal HPC resource predictor at EPCC (Edinburgh’s Parallel Computing Centre), beating every published baseline. Previously: ran large scale ML models at one of the world’s largest quantitative funds (QRT). Studied computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.

  • Nikodem Bieniek· Founder

    Niko is co-founder and CTO of Expanse. Trained and optimised speech recognition models on GPU clusters. Previously: managed the platforms researchers and engineers depended on at one of the world’s largest hedge funds (Millennium). Studied computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.

  • Yafet Melake· Founder

    Yafet is co-founder and COO of Expanse. Built the first GNN-based cluster graph network for predicting SLURM queue wait times at EPCC (Edinburgh’s Parallel Computing Centre). Previously: tooling and infrastructure for researchers at one of the world’s largest quantitative funds (G-Research). Studied computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.

  • Eren Mendi· Founder

    Eren is co-founder and CPO of Expanse. Built state-of-the-art decentralised foundation model training systems and performance models. Previously: prototyped emerging technologies in quantitative finance (G-Research). Studied computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.

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