Founder Fellowship — South Park Commons

The South Park Commons Founder Fellowship is an investment program designed for founders who are pre-revenue, pre-product, and even pre-idea, focusing on helping them achieve founder-market fit and build category-creating companies. The program offers $400,000 upfront for 7% equity, with an additional $600,000 guaranteed in the next external funding round, plus up to $1 million in credits and perks from various tech companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure, GCP, AWS, Baseten, Render, and Figma. Fellows gain immediate access to SPC offices, programming, resources, and partners upon acceptance. The fellowship includes an intensive in-person bootcamp phase in San Francisco or New York City, where teams work closely with SPC partners on customer discovery, product development, technical scoping, branding, and pitch practice. This phase culminates in an optional presentation at the SPC Demo Faire to top investors. Following the bootcamp, teams enter a residency phase, continuing to receive close partnership with SPC investors and full access to the community until they are ready to raise their seed round. SPC assists with pitch preparation and white-glove introductions to investors, with the majority of fellowship companies successfully raising follow-on funding from tier-1 funds. The program emphasizes long-term partnership and a talent-dense community to support founders through the ideation and early-building stages.

Applications for the Founder Fellowship are open twice a year for Spring and Fall cohorts. The Fall 2026 cohort opens this summer. Interested founders can apply via the provided application link.