10 Years of SPC
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Ruchi Sanghvi
South Park Commons
helps you go from -1 to 0
SPC is a home for the most talented technologists and founders figuring out what's next. We help founders turn the illegible into the inevitable.
Paths Through SPC
Residency
A six month residency for builders looking for wide-ranging exploration, learning, idea testing, and relationship-building. If you're actively exploring what to do next, we'd love to meet you.
Fellowship
A structured path through early company-building for founders starting a venture-scale company. Up to $1M investment, 1:1 partner mentorship, small cohorts, and no set deadlines.
Member Stories
Anurag
Turning side-projects into a company.
Employee #8 at Stripe, Anurag joined SPC and built apps around healthcare, deep learning, and real-time communication. Through building, he spotted an opportunity to radically simplify DevOps. Render was born and subsequently has become one of the fastest growing tools in the developer ecosystem, raising $250M+ to date.
Amit
Building the foundation for a multi-modal future.
Amit joined SPC after building camera tech at Apple, fascinated by turning photos into 3D models. He saw a bigger shift coming: AI is going multi-modal. That sparked Luma, where he's building models powering a new generation of AI-native creative work.
Waseem & Jeff
Two founding members started the first SPC unicorn.
Both engineers from MIT, Waseem and Jeff co-founded two companies together that were successfully acquired before they helped found SPC as original members. This dynamic duo left SPC to start Pilot, the first company founded out of SPC to reach a unicorn ($1B+) valuation.
Abiel & Andres
Banking built for those who’ve been left out.
Abiel and Andres grew up just 30 minutes apart in Mexico, but only met during the Fellowship, where they bonded over the frustration of navigating U.S. banking as immigrants. They started Comun, a neobank designed from the ground up for Latino immigrants.
Tom
From consumer apps to AI research.
Serial entrepreneur and Grouper co-founder, Tom joined SPC to explore ideas for a new consumer startup. While at SPC, a peer ML learning group pulled him deeper. He graduated to join Google Brain and later OpenAI, leading the engineering team for GPT-3. He has since founded his own AI safety and research company, Anthropic.
Ashton
An Olympic gold medalist joined to figure out what’s next.
After winning back-to-back Olympic golds in the decathlon, Ashton joined SPC to find his next challenge. He dove into systems design, discovered a passion for engineering, and graduated to join Intel as a product engineer.
Trisha & Clarence
Two members teamed up to fight financial crime.
Trisha joined SPC after early engineering and PM roles at Affirm. Clarence came to explore new topics while writing an O'Reilly book on ML and Security. They met, discovered a shared interest in security and fintech, and started powerhouse anti-fraud platform Unit21.
James & Dylan
Helping brands navigate the shift to AI.
James and Dylan met at SPC NYC and bonded over a question: what happens when AI becomes the default interface to the internet? They joined the Founder Fellowship to build Profound, where they're creating tools to help brands track and influence how they show up across AI systems.
