Expanse
Unlock wasted GPU capacity.
Founders
- Ismaeel BashirFounder/CEO
- Nikodem BieniekFounder
- Yafet MelakeFounder
- Eren MendiFounder
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About Expanse
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.
San Francisco, CA, USA
Expanse: questions
Which YC batch was Expanse in?
Expanse was in Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch (X26).
Is Expanse still active?
Y Combinator lists Expanse as active.
Who founded Expanse?
Expanse's founders, as listed on its YC page: Ismaeel Bashir (Founder/CEO), Nikodem Bieniek (Founder), Yafet Melake (Founder), Eren Mendi (Founder).
Where is Expanse based?
Expanse lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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