David Gabeau

David Gabeau is first and foremost a builder. He is currently the founder and CEO of Tapestry, an open social graph for AI and social applications.

Tapestry has raised $12.5 million from Union Square Ventures, Redpoint, Slow Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Stellation, Harlem Capital, and others.

Before Tapestry, David was an investor at Union Square Ventures, where he worked on early-stage crypto, consumer, education, and infrastructure companies, including Uniswap and Brilliant.

Earlier, he was an early employee at Snap on the Stories team and worked at Lyft before its IPO.

He writes about AI products people use every day, social graphs, crypto networks, consumer products, and software that remembers.

Projects

  • Tapestry — open social graph for AI and social applications
  • Zumi — AI consumer app built around embodied AI and persistent relationships (160k+ users)
  • Primitives — art collecting app and community built on cryptorails (500k+ NFTs minted)
  • SSE — memecoin trading application ($50M in volume)
  • AI Atlas NYC — market map of early-stage AI companies in New York, updated daily agentically

Writing

Talks

Tapestry Blog · GitHub · LinkedIn · X