Space Raises $2.4M to Abolish the Hard Drive with an AI-Native Filesystem for Humans and Agents

Space raises $2.4M to abolish the hard drive with an AI-native filesystem for humans and agents

Every few years, someone promises to abolish the hard drive. The latest is Space, a San Francisco startup coming out of stealth with $2.4m in pre-seed funding and an unusually literal pitch: a distributed filesystem that lets people and AI agents work across petabytes of live data while using, the company claims, zero local disk […] This story continues at The Next Web

Space raises USD $2.4 million for AI-native filesystem

The startup aims to spare creators and AI agents from downloading large files before work can begin, after a pre-seed round led by a16z Speedrun.

Space raises $2.4M led by a16z Speedrun to build the AI-native filesystem for humans and agents

Space is building a distributed filesystem that lets humans and agents instantly access and work across petabytes of live data while using zero local disk space. San Francisco, CA – August 18, 2026: Cloud storage was supposed to make computers feel limitless. Yet workflows remain constrained by the disk inside each device. The cloud gave data another place to live, but not a better way to reach it.  People are still forced to upload, download, s…