Ruchi Sanghvi is the founding member of the SPC Community. She was the first female executive at Dropbox and served as their Vice President of Operations. She was responsible for product, marketing, communications, recruiting and other functions. She came to Dropbox through its acquisition of Cove, a company she founded in 2011. Prior to that Ruchi was the first female engineer at Facebook, and was instrumental in implementing the first versions of key features like News Feed, Facebook Platfo...| www.southparkcommons.com
Prateek Mehta is a Partner based in Bangalore, where he leads SPC's India office and investments. Prateek’s journey is emblematic of Bangalore’s builder culture, with over 15 years spent in the Indian startup ecosystem as a founder and operator at different stages across multiple companies. He co-founded Scripbox and Upwardly, scaled Myntra as SVP of their core brand retail business, and was key in expanding Angel One’s market cap. Prateek brings diverse operating experience to the SPC ...| www.southparkcommons.com
Jonathan is SPC's Storytelling Partner and is based in San Francisco. Jonathan is an expert at helping our members, companies, and the community craft and tell compelling narratives. He previously worked in campaign politics, advertising, and as an independent writer and filmmaker. When he's not typing away at his computer you can find him on a hiking trail or trying to find a new bakery. Jonathan graduated from the University of Southern California with bachelor’s degrees in Film Productio...| www.southparkcommons.com
Gopal is a Principal based in New York City. Previously, he helped build Retool’s technical GTM team as a deployed engineer. He studied economics, computer science, and poetry at Stanford, where he was also a Mayfield Fellow. In his spare time, he loves playing tennis, skiing, and writing (usually about art).| www.southparkcommons.com
Finn is a Partner based in San Francisco. He joined SPC as an early member of the team, working closely with our Founder Ruchi Sanghvi as Chief of Staff to take SPC from -1 to 0. He stepped into the Partner role in 2021 and has helped scale our SF office and investing. Before coming to SPC, he was a rower with the US National Team. Prior to that, he earned his master's degree from University of Cambridge and his bachelor's degree from Brown University.| www.southparkcommons.com
Evan is a Partner based in San Francisco. He joined SPC from his previous role as the Founding General Partner at Script Capital. Evan started his career at Digital Chocolate and Loopt, pioneering the mobile gaming and social mapping space. He was on the founding team at Shopkick, leading as VP of Product Management to over $15M in revenue before a $250M acquisition by SK Telecom. Post-acquisition, Evan founded Sparks Mobile, later acquired by Dropbox, where he spearheaded several product ini...| www.southparkcommons.com
Dylan is a Principal based in New York City. He spent the last three years as an early stage investing Principal at Expa in NYC. He regularly cultivates the NYC startup community by hosting meet-ups, dinners, and events reaching thousands of people. Prior to his tenure at Expa, Dylan spent several years in the UK working as an investor at Founders Factory, a pre-seed fund and venture studio London. Dylan is a proud Canadian, which you will know within minutes of meeting him.| www.southparkcommons.com
Danh is a Principal based in San Francisco. He previously held product management roles at early stage startups in B2B SaaS, dev tooling, and fintech, including Blend as an early employee. Prior to his product roles, he advised and partnered with his wife to help her edtech company Breathe For Change grow from founding to profitability. Danh started his career on Wall Street, first as a derivatives trader and then an investor at Bridgewater. Danh lives in San Francisco with his wife Ilana and...| www.southparkcommons.com
Arian is a Partner based in New York City, where she leads the SPC NYC office. A return member, Arian started her previous company Riya Collective as a member of SPC and raised a seed round prior to the pandemic. She previously worked in product management at Fin and business operations at Homejoy and holds a bachelor of science from MIT.| www.southparkcommons.com
Aditya Agarwal is a Partner based in San Francisco. He was the CTO and VP of Engineering at Dropbox where he scaled the engineering team from 25 to 1000. Before Dropbox, Aditya co-founded Cove—a company that was building modern collaboration software. Prior to Cove, Aditya was one of Facebook’s first engineers. He helped build the first versions of key products like Search, NewsFeed and Messenger. He then became Facebook’s first director of Product Engineering, overseeing engineering fo...| www.southparkcommons.com
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