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- Eren Mendi@erenzmendi03Founder · ExpanseX26B2B · San Francisco
- Ismaeel Bashir@ismaeel_bashir_Founder/CEO · ExpanseX26B2B · San Francisco
- Nikodem Bieniek@nkdem_bFounder · ExpanseX26B2B · San Francisco
- Yafet Melake@yafet_melakeFounder · ExpanseX26B2B · San Francisco
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Eren MendiExpanseFounderSpring 2026B2BSan Francisco, United States4https://x.com/erenzmendi03Ismaeel BashirExpanseFounder/CEOSpring 2026B2BSan Francisco, United States4https://x.com/ismaeel_bashir_Nikodem BieniekExpanseFounderSpring 2026B2BSan Francisco, United States4https://x.com/nkdem_bYafet MelakeExpanseFounderSpring 2026B2BSan Francisco, United States4https://x.com/yafet_melake
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Ismaeel Bashir
Founder/CEO·Expanse
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder/CEO
Team size4
BatchSpring 2026
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
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.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
Credentialsnone mentioned
DisciplineEngineerKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
First YC company on record
COMPANY CONTEXT
ExpanseUnlock wasted GPU capacity.
