South Park Commons: a founder community backing builders at the '-1 to 0' stage

South Park Commons is a San Francisco-based community of technologists and builders, founded in 2016 by former Facebook and Dropbox operator Ruchi Sanghvi, with Aditya Agarwal as a general partner.

The model: SPC positions itself around the earliest, pre-idea phase of company creation — helping members go from what it calls "-1 to 0" — rather than running a fixed-length accelerator batch. The community has grown to over 1,000 founders and technologists.

Investing: The SPC Fund backs companies that emerge from its members' explorations, funding startups at the pre-seed and seed stage as they spin out of the community.

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