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[Ankit Chowdhary @ankitcc]

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[South Park Commons India @spc_india]

When maximally ambitious builders meet a moving frontier, just 18 months is all it takes.
To change everything.

Coming soon.
SPC India's Annual Portfolio Showcase.

Invite only. Watch this space.

[Aadhar is building Kulfi @aadharrr]

Fun fact: Kulfi is the highest-rated couples app on every store.

Here's what I've been trying to explain to people for a while: we're not building for couples. We're building for love.

I know that sounds like the same thing. It isn't, and it's hard to put into words until you're in the room with us.

Once you see it, though, you start to understand why this will be a multi-billion dollar company.

We're hiring for pretty much every role.

If any of this clicks for you, come talk to us.

Apply using the Link Below

https://t.co/hoUtRln8V7

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

Five @spc companies in there 👀👀

[Prateek Mehta @prateekmehta42]

Our next 'Minus One' guest @spc_india, heralded the Indian e-commerce revolution, changed the way customers shop, and built the infrastructure that unleashed the Indian startup wave!

He was also an instrumental force behind @spc India and our mission here. @binnybansal has always believed in the ambition of our builders, and their global maxima. As a lifelong builder, leader and innovator - he is the archetype.

Stoked to be hosting him on home ground, on 29th Oct!

Approval required, very limited seats. Link in comments.

[Shreepoorna S Rao @shreepoorna365]

for the love of the game

[South Park Commons India @spc_india]

AI is leaving the screen.
For the physical world. We're here for it.

Physical AI Demo Night at SPC India, in partnership with @ElevCap, and powered by @AWSCloudIndia.

Curated, live demos of real products across robotics, autonomy, computer vision, advanced manufacturing and more! If you have a working build, apply to share your demo, and story.

If you just want to be part of this room, apply to attend.

We have limited slots. Link below.

@ankitcc @garg_tushar_ @bansalvartika @OnaRoy88 @amruthajalihal

[Ankit Chowdhary @ankitcc]

Amazing milestone! Almost ready for launch 🚀

[QOSMIC @QOSMIC__Space]

Nine months ago, this did not exist.

Today, India can build its own Fast Steering Mirror. QOSMIC’s FSM has cleared thermal vacuum and vibration qualification, both on the first attempt.

The FSM is the fine-pointing core of every optical link: satellite to ground, satellite to satellite, ground to ground. It holds a laser locked on target while everything around it moves, making hundreds of tiny corrections every second.

To put that precision in perspective: lay a grid over Rashtrapati Bhavan. From 500 km above your head, our FSM is designed to point a laser link at any single point on it.

Only two or three suppliers worldwide build this class of hardware. So we built ours.

From nothing to space-qualified in under a year.

Built to survive launch. Now it waits for one 👀

#ICSO2026 #ICSO #NewSpaceIndia #OpticalCommunications #LaserCommunication
@Jain_Shrey_ @RohitKR79 @aalokelab @shashank_huh @js_2606
@Accel @AccelAtoms @AccelIndia @spc_india @spc @artparkindia

[QOSMIC @QOSMIC__Space]

Nine months ago, this did not exist.

Today, India can build its own Fast Steering Mirror. QOSMIC’s FSM has cleared thermal vacuum and vibration qualification, both on the first attempt.

The FSM is the fine-pointing core of every optical link: satellite to ground, satellite to satellite, ground to ground. It holds a laser locked on target while everything around it moves, making hundreds of tiny corrections every second.

To put that precision in perspective: lay a grid over Rashtrapati Bhavan. From 500 km above your head, our FSM is designed to point a laser link at any single point on it.

Only two or three suppliers worldwide build this class of hardware. So we built ours.

From nothing to space-qualified in under a year.

Built to survive launch. Now it waits for one 👀

#ICSO2026 #ICSO #NewSpaceIndia #OpticalCommunications #LaserCommunication
@Jain_Shrey_ @RohitKR79 @aalokelab @shashank_huh @js_2606
@Accel @AccelAtoms @AccelIndia @spc_india @spc @artparkindia

[Ankit Chowdhary @ankitcc]

@sohamsankaran @neilshroff @PopVaxIndia Congrats!

[Ankit Chowdhary @ankitcc]

What does it actually take to go from -1 to IPO in India?

Next week, @nandanreddy joins us at @spc_india to share where food delivery started and how Swiggy got from -1 to IPO. Expect some solid lessons and stories in this one

[Prateek Mehta @prateekmehta42]

Very few people in the world, know what it takes to take a company from '-1' to IPO.

My next Minus One guest at South Park Commons Bangalore, does.

He happens to be a current @spc_india community member, and the co-founder of Swiggy @nandanreddy

He co-founded Swiggy with Sriharsha Majety and Rahul Jaimini, spent more than a decade there, took it through a public listing in 2024, and most recently led Crew, its AI concierge.

Swiggy is a verb, if there ever was one, in the Indian ecosystem. I have lost count of how many times most of us use the word 'Swiggy it' in a day! And the journey to get there, is a real lesson on how to build something indispensable and undeniable, for all of Bharat.

Can't wait to dig into his learnings in our chat, and also spend some time talking about our shared love of books, and certain kinds of content!

RSVP on link below.

[Ankit Chowdhary @ankitcc]

Congrats to @reachpuneet @sanjayiitd and the whole Moneyview team on this amazing milestone! Was an honor to be there yesterday with the Moneyview team

[Prateek Mehta @prateekmehta42]

I have known both Sanjay Aggarwal and Puneet Agarwal for a while.

@sanjayiitd, I knew earlier as a runner and an entrepreneur that I would go to for advice, as I was building my own startup. I was introduced to @reachpuneet because of Sanjay.

We tried collaborating multiple times, but for some reason or the other, we could never formally get into a business collaboration. We tried doing it when I was building Upwardly, and then later at Scripbox, then again a little down the line at Angel One.

Times change. But across all these interactions, I was consistently amazed at their quality of inputs, strategic clarity, and the force of their vision and conviction!

In an interesting turn of events, when I joined @spc, I realised that we are on the Moneyvew cap table! So, us orbiting each other in the ecosystem, did converge at an unexpected (but well-aligned) point.

Theirs has been an interesting story, 12 years in the making. To become one of the largest consumer credit platforms in India is nothing short of amazing. It is a hard market, and only the real ones survive. It has taken a lot of endurance and creativity for them to get here…and it shows us that the good guys can win big!

Here’s to the next chapter of this incredibly inspiring story. Congratulations to Puneet, Sanjay and the Moneyview team, on the historic IPO!

[Evan Tana @evantana]

Notes from the “Founder Mindset” talk I give at every @spc Founder Fellowship kickoff.

I updated it more for this cohort than ever before because this window is like no other.

Notes from 💬:

You’re in the arena at one of the most extraordinary moments in history. Windows like this are rare, and they don’t last forever. Be maximally ambitious. Make it count.

The 6 founder mindsets I spoke about:

1. Epistemic humility & audacious courage. Learn aggressively, question your assumptions, then find the courage to commit with imperfect information.
2. Demand deltas. Every day, leave with a new learning, a new idea, or a sharper narrative.
3. Don’t negotiate against yourself. Don’t compromise the ask. Let someone else tell you no.
4. Be talent greedy. Always be pulling exceptional people into your orbit.
5. Always be selling. Every conversation is a rep. Practice creating belief before there’s proof.
6. The energy comes from you. You set the pace, urgency, and ambition.

The ask: Lean into the @spc community. Be vulnerable, ask for help, and let the people around you compound your ambition.

[Evan Tana @evantana]

Kicking off our latest @spc cohort of frontier builders.

An extraordinarily talented and inspiring group working across computational biology, model alignment, AI quantization, aerospace, manufacturing, and more.

They’re starting companies at the most consequential moment I’ve lived through. What a time to build.

Let's get to work.

[Tushar Garg @garg_tushar_]

What have you been nerding out on lately?

Bring it to SPC After Hours this Thursday.

~20 builders, researchers and tinkerers. Short lightning talks. Strange repos, half-built things, papers, ideas, experiments.

Registration link in the comments.

[South Park Commons @spc]

@LongshotSpace is building a cannon that launches payloads to orbit.

SPC members spent an afternoon at their facility.

Welcome to the future of space launch.

[Ankit Chowdhary @ankitcc]

This one was solid @snsf

[Prateek Mehta @prateekmehta42]

Much has been said about cybersecurity, alignment and responsible building. As the technology moves underneath us, more will be said!

None of us have clairvoyant certainty about the future.

What we do know, is that it'll be like nothing we've seen before. That's why we need people like @snsf sharing their beliefs, and view of what is critical!

Really enjoyed having him at @spc_india to talk about all this, and why building the right thing, matters now more than ever!

Full Minus One episode is out now, shared below.

[Srinivas Narayanan @snsf]

Loved meeting @shreepoorna365 and the @arctusaerospace team in Bengaluru. They have an inspiring and bold vision to build unmanned airplanes for earth observation. If you are an awesome hardware engineer interested in aerospace in India, please reach out to [email protected]

[nischal jain @nischal]

Launching Egma - OSS simulation testing for voice agents

We've deployed voice agents in regulated industries ourselves & spent hours manually testing on every push.

Existing vendors charge an insane 5-20X premium on inference. Egma lets you bring your own API keys.

Github👇

[South Park Commons @spc]

Why you’re more likely to find something worth building in a group than alone. https://t.co/Syi3aWeFft

[Dr. S Somanath @SomanathSpeak]

Congratulations COSMIC. This technology development is critical for the nation to achieve high throughput communication from future constellations and for secured communication networks. Good example of academy-industry collaborative research.
#SomanathSpeak