Space is a distributed filesystem for Mac that makes cloud-hosted files behave like local ones, aimed at teams working with datasets, codebases, media libraries, and design projects that no longer fit on a laptop. Files appear in Finder and open in existing native applications without a download or permanent local copy, and when an application or agent requests data, Space streams only the exact byte ranges required, in real time, to complete the task. The launch matters because agentic tools are pushing file access to a breaking point, forcing users to upload an entire file to a chatbot even when the task needs only one page, one frame, or one byte range .
The company was founded by Matthew Ao, Arihant Bapna, and Jason Zhao , who hit the problem at their previous startup while moving terabytes of video each month and watched workflows break whenever a drive was left at home. Space just announced a $2.4 million pre-seed round led by a16z Speedrun, with participation from Golden Ventures, Northside Ventures, and a dozen angel investors with backgrounds across prosumer and enterprise software such as Parsec, Sentry, Stan, Superwhisper, and Modem.
The positioning is deliberately below the app layer. Where Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive are built primarily around syncing entire files onto local devices or bringing workflows into web applications, Space lives at the filesystem layer, low enough that tools like Premiere, DaVinci, Blender, CAD tools, code editors, and AI agents can all work from it without a separate integration for every tool. It is currently in private beta, with roughly 100 users and teams onboarded , and the longer-term pitch to founders and operators is a workstation that treats storage as effectively unlimited for both humans and the agents acting on their behalf.
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Priya Ranganathan19d ago
the 'don't be the person slowing your team down' line is passive aggressive in the best way. hooking devs by shaming their coworkers is genuinely evil marketing and i respect it.
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Benicio Alarcón19d ago
one more thing for the roadmap: team-level pinning rules so the ml folks don't nuke the cache the frontend team just warmed up. you'll thank me in q3.
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Kwame Osei-Fordjour19d ago
ok wait, is this actually streaming file bytes on demand or just a fancy fuse mount with aggressive caching? the demo cuts right before the part i actually care about.
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Recep B.19d ago
who's hiring for the systems side of this? got a candidate who did storage at a hyperscaler and is bored out of her mind at a fintech.
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Linh Truong19d ago
shipped something adjacent last year and let me say: the eviction logic is where dreams go to die. rooting for you but also watching closely.
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Dane Morrisson19d ago
tagline rewrite, on the house: 'your disk, but bigger than physics allows.' keep 'infinite space' if you must but lean weirder.
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yulia19d ago
video pacing is tight but the hook is soft. first 1.5 seconds should be the pain, not the logo. every scroll you lose is a dev who kept downloading 40gb tarballs.
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hollowbyte19d ago
disk space is a lie we tell ourselves so we can sleep at night.
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Amara Okafor19d ago
reminds me of a project we scoped at big co in 2019 that got killed for 'unclear user segment.' turns out the segment is everyone with a 256gb macbook, congrats on shipping what we couldn't.
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Space is a distributed filesystem for Mac that makes cloud-hosted files behave like local ones, aimed at teams working with datasets, codebases, media libraries, and design projects that no longer fit on a laptop. Files appear in Finder and open in existing native applications without a download or permanent local copy, and when an application or agent requests data, Space streams only the exact byte ranges required, in real time, to complete the task. The launch matters because agentic tools are pushing file access to a breaking point, forcing users to upload an entire file to a chatbot even when the task needs only one page, one frame, or one byte range . The company was founded by Matthew Ao, Arihant Bapna, and Jason Zhao , who hit the problem at their previous startup while moving terabytes of video each month and watched workflows break whenever a drive was left at home. Space just announced a $2.4 million pre-seed round led by a16z Speedrun, with participation from Golden Ventures, Northside Ventures, and a dozen angel investors with backgrounds across prosumer and enterprise software such as Parsec, Sentry, Stan, Superwhisper, and Modem. The positioning is deliberately below the app layer. Where Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive are built primarily around syncing entire files onto local devices or bringing workflows into web applications, Space lives at the filesystem layer, low enough that tools like Premiere, DaVinci, Blender, CAD tools, code editors, and AI agents can all work from it without a separate integration for every tool. It is currently in private beta, with roughly 100 users and teams onboarded , and the longer-term pitch to founders and operators is a workstation that treats storage as effectively unlimited for both humans and the agents acting on their behalf.
Comments (9)
the 'don't be the person slowing your team down' line is passive aggressive in the best way. hooking devs by shaming their coworkers is genuinely evil marketing and i respect it.
one more thing for the roadmap: team-level pinning rules so the ml folks don't nuke the cache the frontend team just warmed up. you'll thank me in q3.
ok wait, is this actually streaming file bytes on demand or just a fancy fuse mount with aggressive caching? the demo cuts right before the part i actually care about.
who's hiring for the systems side of this? got a candidate who did storage at a hyperscaler and is bored out of her mind at a fintech.
shipped something adjacent last year and let me say: the eviction logic is where dreams go to die. rooting for you but also watching closely.
tagline rewrite, on the house: 'your disk, but bigger than physics allows.' keep 'infinite space' if you must but lean weirder.
video pacing is tight but the hook is soft. first 1.5 seconds should be the pain, not the logo. every scroll you lose is a dev who kept downloading 40gb tarballs.
disk space is a lie we tell ourselves so we can sleep at night.
reminds me of a project we scoped at big co in 2019 that got killed for 'unclear user segment.' turns out the segment is everyone with a 256gb macbook, congrats on shipping what we couldn't.