Tapestry Raises $5.75M Series A to Power the Future of Social Apps
Three years ago, we launched our first app, Primitives, with the mission of creating a social crypto product that combined the joy of Web3 with the seamless user experience of Web2. We successfully introduced on-chain minting experiences for artists, delivering them at costs and speeds that made for delightful user interactions. Along the way, we navigated many of the challenges facing crypto in the social space: the absence of network effects, transaction complexity, and the hurdles of an iOS store unfriendly to crypto.
Over the past year, we’ve expanded our ecosystem of user-friendly crypto applications, adding .blink, a namespace on Solana, and our Social Graph Explorer. What’s exciting about these products is that they’re built on our protocol, Tapestry, enabling a unified user experience. With Tapestry, users can seamlessly sign into these apps without the need to re-enter usernames, upload profile pictures, or rebuild their identity—the protocol already has it covered.
For developers, Tapestry eliminates the need to build backend infrastructure for profiles, likes, comments, or notifications, allowing them to focus on creating the unique features that set their apps apart.
Today, Tapestry stands as the leading social infrastructure protocol in the Solana ecosystem. We’re thrilled to announce our $5.75 million Series A funding round, co-led by Union Square Ventures and Fabric Ventures, with additional participation from Stellation, Slow Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Harlem Capital, Social Graph Ventures, and Re7. This brings our total funding to $11.75 million.
This investment will accelerate the development of our Solana-based social graph and the upcoming launch of TapAI, our AI-driven creation platform. TapAI empowers anyone with an idea to build and deploy social applications using simple prompts, all while connecting them through a permissionless social graph. Apps are better when they understand your interests and connections—and Tapestry ensures app builders can deliver that value from day one.
The Foundation for Next-Gen Social
Since launching in October, we've been working to transform how social applications are built and connected. Our vision is simple but ambitious: create an open, permissionless social graph to rival major social platforms while paving the way for user-driven networks that operate beyond centralized control. In short, we aim to be the internet’s social graph.
Today's announcement marks a major milestone in that journey. With this new funding, we're doubling down on three key initiatives:
Expanding our AI app creation tools to enable users to create any type of social application
Growing our decentralized social graph to ecosystems beyond Solana
Building integrations that allow indie developers to quickly connect their generated apps to Tapestry’s social infrastructure
Why Solana?
We chose to build Tapestry natively on Solana because we believe it's crypto's fastest-growing consumer ecosystem. With negligible fees and high transaction speeds, Solana enables us to support a diverse array of interoperable apps and experiences at massive scale. Today, developers can plug into over 100k composable profiles and make better
The Future of App development is powered by AI
We believe AI is transforming app development into a natural, conversational process. Soon, communities will spawn custom tools instantly, events will get dedicated apps, and viral moments will transform into interactive experiences in real-time—making it impossible to build closed social networks.
With this future of AI-generated applications, what matters isn't where you go – it's who you bring with you. And as apps emerge at the speed of imagination, users will expect their social connections to persist across every experience. That's why we're building rock-solid social infrastructure today that will serve as the foundation for tomorrow's digital experiences.
Join Us in Building the Future
We're incredibly grateful to our investors who share our vision of democratizing social app development. Peter Boyce II, Founder & Managing Partner of Stellation Capital noted, “The intersection of crypto and AI is a transformative new frontier whose true potential is only beginning to emerge. Tapestry is working to pioneer in this arena with a vision for portable communities that empower both developers and end users— and we’re proud to support them in shaping the future of this rapidly evolving ecosystem.”
This is just the beginning of our journey to transform how social applications are built and experienced. Whether you're a developer looking to build the next great social app or a user excited about the future of digital social experiences, we invite you to join us.
Ready to start building? Visit usetapestry.ai to create and deploy your applications today.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to build the future of social infrastructure on Solana.
For more information about Tapestry, check out our Documentation and Whitepaper.