Fabric raises $1m to build an AI-native, multiplayer workspace & file explorer
January 24, 2023
Our vision is a unified home for all information.
An AI-native universal storage & team workspace, that runs on autopilot.
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The year is 2023.
Our information is scattered between dozens of devices, drives, and apps.
We spend hours per day seeking information.
We're still working with tools that were designed for a pre-internet world, where everything was a file directly inside your computer.
A crude metaphor inherited from physical filing cabinets, 60 years ago.
The model no longer fits. Our information is fragmented, hard to find and faces the constant risk of lost access. 54.62% of people use at least 3 different cloud services. The outcome is that the average knowledge worker spends 5-8 hours a week dealing with the mess of information retrieval – let alone the duplicate work that can happen as a result. An incredible waste of human hours.
Filing, organising, and retrieving all feel like they should be the job of the computer, not the user. After all, we long ago delegated the task of organisation and retrieval of the public internet to search engines. We take for granted that Google unburdened us from this – but what’s the equivalent for private data?
Fabric takes this to its logical conclusion:
Organising information is a job for machines.
It got us thinking; what if there was a universal home for information – one that works the way our minds do? One that organized itself.
Imagine if all information and files were brought together automatically; your internet drives, app content and local files unified in a single filesystem.
Imagine if everything was intelligently connected, understood and resurfaced to you wherever and whenever you needed it.
Fabric accomplishes this with a new internet-native filesystem that can store and represent any kind of information – your notes beside your files, beside links and more. Everything together. Fully interactive.
Simply save directly to it, or connect any other app. We don't support it? Build your own connector into Fabric.
So much can happen once things are brought together.
You could easily collaborate inside a single document or across multiple files, like working together at a virtual internet computer. No more friction or scattered information when collaborating.
You could resurface files and information anywhere in the OS, making them available in any other app. Or intelligently suggest an item at just the right moment, when writing a document.
Fabric is the first filesystem built natively on top of transformer models, where everything inside it is interlinked with everything else by meaning – not merely locked into artificial silos like folders. The content can be as arranged or unstructured as you want. It organizes itself, so you don't have to.
We put up a landing page for Fabric around Christmas time 2022, and launched a crude prototype in April 2023.
We've since had 20,000+ prosumers and teams sign up – more than we can handle yet.
We've received backing from Europe's leading pre-seed investor: Seedcamp, and Microsoft veteran experience from Acequia Capital, and an all-star cast of angels, including Ian Hogarth (Chair, UK AI Foundation Model Taskforce), Will Neale (Grabyo), Charles Songhurst (Microsoft), Sean Whitney (Figma), Henry De Zoete (UK Adviser to the PM on AI), and many more that we're honoured to have on board.
With some AI and startup heavy-weights backing us and a large community passionate for our vision, we're poised to make a real impact on how we work and interact with all information.
Follow @fabricinternet on Twitter for updates and join the waitlist to be one of the first to try the beta.
Our vision is a unified home for all information.
An AI-native universal storage & team workspace, that runs on autopilot.
–––––––––
The year is 2023.
Our information is scattered between dozens of devices, drives, and apps.
We spend hours per day seeking information.
We're still working with tools that were designed for a pre-internet world, where everything was a file directly inside your computer.
A crude metaphor inherited from physical filing cabinets, 60 years ago.
The model no longer fits. Our information is fragmented, hard to find and faces the constant risk of lost access. 54.62% of people use at least 3 different cloud services. The outcome is that the average knowledge worker spends 5-8 hours a week dealing with the mess of information retrieval – let alone the duplicate work that can happen as a result. An incredible waste of human hours.
Filing, organising, and retrieving all feel like they should be the job of the computer, not the user. After all, we long ago delegated the task of organisation and retrieval of the public internet to search engines. We take for granted that Google unburdened us from this – but what’s the equivalent for private data?
Fabric takes this to its logical conclusion:
Organising information is a job for machines.
It got us thinking; what if there was a universal home for information – one that works the way our minds do? One that organized itself.
Imagine if all information and files were brought together automatically; your internet drives, app content and local files unified in a single filesystem.
Imagine if everything was intelligently connected, understood and resurfaced to you wherever and whenever you needed it.
Fabric accomplishes this with a new internet-native filesystem that can store and represent any kind of information – your notes beside your files, beside links and more. Everything together. Fully interactive.
Simply save directly to it, or connect any other app. We don't support it? Build your own connector into Fabric.
So much can happen once things are brought together.
You could easily collaborate inside a single document or across multiple files, like working together at a virtual internet computer. No more friction or scattered information when collaborating.
You could resurface files and information anywhere in the OS, making them available in any other app. Or intelligently suggest an item at just the right moment, when writing a document.
Fabric is the first filesystem built natively on top of transformer models, where everything inside it is interlinked with everything else by meaning – not merely locked into artificial silos like folders. The content can be as arranged or unstructured as you want. It organizes itself, so you don't have to.
We put up a landing page for Fabric around Christmas time 2022, and launched a crude prototype in April 2023.
We've since had 20,000+ prosumers and teams sign up – more than we can handle yet.
We've received backing from Europe's leading pre-seed investor: Seedcamp, and Microsoft veteran experience from Acequia Capital, and an all-star cast of angels, including Ian Hogarth (Chair, UK AI Foundation Model Taskforce), Will Neale (Grabyo), Charles Songhurst (Microsoft), Sean Whitney (Figma), Henry De Zoete (UK Adviser to the PM on AI), and many more that we're honoured to have on board.
With some AI and startup heavy-weights backing us and a large community passionate for our vision, we're poised to make a real impact on how we work and interact with all information.
Follow @fabricinternet on Twitter for updates and join the waitlist to be one of the first to try the beta.
Our vision is a unified home for all information.
An AI-native universal storage & team workspace, that runs on autopilot.
–––––––––
The year is 2023.
Our information is scattered between dozens of devices, drives, and apps.
We spend hours per day seeking information.
We're still working with tools that were designed for a pre-internet world, where everything was a file directly inside your computer.
A crude metaphor inherited from physical filing cabinets, 60 years ago.
The model no longer fits. Our information is fragmented, hard to find and faces the constant risk of lost access. 54.62% of people use at least 3 different cloud services. The outcome is that the average knowledge worker spends 5-8 hours a week dealing with the mess of information retrieval – let alone the duplicate work that can happen as a result. An incredible waste of human hours.
Filing, organising, and retrieving all feel like they should be the job of the computer, not the user. After all, we long ago delegated the task of organisation and retrieval of the public internet to search engines. We take for granted that Google unburdened us from this – but what’s the equivalent for private data?
Fabric takes this to its logical conclusion:
Organising information is a job for machines.
It got us thinking; what if there was a universal home for information – one that works the way our minds do? One that organized itself.
Imagine if all information and files were brought together automatically; your internet drives, app content and local files unified in a single filesystem.
Imagine if everything was intelligently connected, understood and resurfaced to you wherever and whenever you needed it.
Fabric accomplishes this with a new internet-native filesystem that can store and represent any kind of information – your notes beside your files, beside links and more. Everything together. Fully interactive.
Simply save directly to it, or connect any other app. We don't support it? Build your own connector into Fabric.
So much can happen once things are brought together.
You could easily collaborate inside a single document or across multiple files, like working together at a virtual internet computer. No more friction or scattered information when collaborating.
You could resurface files and information anywhere in the OS, making them available in any other app. Or intelligently suggest an item at just the right moment, when writing a document.
Fabric is the first filesystem built natively on top of transformer models, where everything inside it is interlinked with everything else by meaning – not merely locked into artificial silos like folders. The content can be as arranged or unstructured as you want. It organizes itself, so you don't have to.
We put up a landing page for Fabric around Christmas time 2022, and launched a crude prototype in April 2023.
We've since had 20,000+ prosumers and teams sign up – more than we can handle yet.
We've received backing from Europe's leading pre-seed investor: Seedcamp, and Microsoft veteran experience from Acequia Capital, and an all-star cast of angels, including Ian Hogarth (Chair, UK AI Foundation Model Taskforce), Will Neale (Grabyo), Charles Songhurst (Microsoft), Sean Whitney (Figma), Henry De Zoete (UK Adviser to the PM on AI), and many more that we're honoured to have on board.
With some AI and startup heavy-weights backing us and a large community passionate for our vision, we're poised to make a real impact on how we work and interact with all information.
Follow @fabricinternet on Twitter for updates and join the waitlist to be one of the first to try the beta.
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