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Fabric

AcquiredYC S16

San Francisco, US · 2 employees · 12 known investors

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Fabric is a mobile app that records and organizes a user's locations, activities, and social interactions into a personal log, allowing users to track where they've been and review associated photos and notes.

Also known as ECHOWORKS Inc. · EchoWorks · Echoworks Inc. · fabric_app

ConsumerSocialPrivacyUnited States of AmericaAmerica / Canada

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S16)

AVArun Vijayvergiya
Arun VijayvergiyaCEO
NVNikolay Valtchanov
Nikolay ValtchanovFounderNikolay Valtchanov is the founder of Fabric, a mobile app for logging and organizing one's locations, activities, and social interactions. He previously spent nearly five years as a product engineer on Facebook's early Platform teams (Mobile Platform, Open Graph) and worked on backend projects including Microsoft IIS and Google Docs, and is a full-stack web and mobile generalist with experience in iOS and product strategy.

Investors · 12

Bessemer Venture PartnersreportedSan Francisco · $50K – $100M

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HousereportedBerkeley · $1M – $2M

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Lemonade Capitalreported

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Samsung VenturesreportedSeoul

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Scrum VenturesreportedSan Francisco

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Slow VenturesreportedSan Francisco · $50K – $1M

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Venture Investment AssociatesreportedPeapack

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Also in the syndicate · 4

CNO Financial GroupleadGuardian LifeNippon LifeSecurian Ventures

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Fabric, operated by Echoworks Inc. of San Francisco, California, was a consumer mobile application that automatically kept track of the places a user visited and let them add custom moments involving the people in their life. The app organized a user's photos by person, place or city and provided search across that personal archive, positioning itself as a way to "search your life like you search the web."

Press descriptions cited on the company's site characterized the product as a way to record and archive digital memories and as an automatic journal of a user's life. The service was discontinued, with users directed to export their data before deletion.

Latest developments

Fabric announced it was shutting down on March 1st, telling users to download their data before it was deleted and providing an email address and Twitter account for questions.

▸Full profile — technology, go-to-market, geography

Technology

The app automatically captured location history to build a log of places visited, and supported user-added moments tied to people. Stored photos were organized by person, place and city, and the resulting personal archive was searchable.

Go-to-market

Individual consumers seeking an automated personal journal and archive of their locations, activities, photos and social interactions.

Geography

Operated by Echoworks Inc., based in San Francisco, California.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

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Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Mar 2017
Fabric app shuts down

Fabric announced it was shutting down on March 1st, directing users to download their data before deletion and to contact feedback@echo.works or @fabric_app with questions.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
ECHOWORKS Inc.

▸Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Fabric do?
Fabric was a mobile personal-journaling app that automatically logged a user's places, moments and photos.
Who founded Fabric?
Fabric was founded by Arun Vijayvergiya, Nikolay Valtchanov.
Who are Fabric's investors?
Fabric's investors include Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, House, Lemonade Capital, Samsung Ventures, Scrum Ventures, Slow Ventures, Venture Investment Associates.
Where is Fabric headquartered?
Fabric is headquartered in San Francisco, US.