Craig Stanton

Partner @southpkcommons. formerly @Sierra_Ventures, @getfreebird, @commmercevc. vc, fintech, gaming

[South Park Commons @southpkcommons]

Great ideas aren’t found in charted territory. They’re off the edge of the map.

SPC members push the frontier forward.

Here are some of the questions we’re exploring at SPC right now.

[Dheemanth Reddy @Dheemanthredy]

Excited to share that Maya Research has raised $1.9M from South Park Commons, our first partners in this journey.

Maya is building the voice interface for the rest of the world. For the billions who live through voice.

We are building this interface around how people actually talk in real life, how they have conversations, discover, and decide who to trust.

The rest of the world will only use the technology at this scale when it feels native, like one of their own.

@southpkcommons @spc_india

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

Very very excited to welcome Ryan Atkins to the team as a Partner.

We have a lot to build @southpkcommons!

[Jonathan Brebner @JPBrebner]

Join SPC to start the next SPCX

is this anything @southpkcommons

[Alvaro Morales @alvaromorales]

Today, we announced that @useOrb has entered into a definitive agreement to join @Adyen.

@kshithappens and I have spent the past five years building Orb alongside some of the fastest growing companies in the world. The clearest thing we've learned: how companies price is changing faster than how they bill. AI has accelerated the shift toward consumption and outcome-based models, and the infrastructure underneath hasn't kept up. That gap is why we founded Orb, and joining Adyen is how we close it at global scale.

Today's announcement doesn't change our commitment to our customers. Orb will continue operating as a stand-alone product, there will be no interruption in service, and our customers can continue to choose to work with their preferred payment processing partner. We're here for the long run, ensuring that our service continues to uphold "billing must be correct" as our customers pursue their most audacious revenue design goals.

So why Adyen? Over the past several years supporting our customers' global growth, we've learned that billing at serious scale is only half the equation. The other half is moving money across markets, currencies, and enterprise requirements. Adyen has already built the foundational financial infrastructure that makes this possible. Joining them lets us build offerings that bring to life the vision of self-driving infrastructure for revenue optimization. We’re incredibly excited for Orb to only get better from here.

To our team: thank you for all the hard work that you do every day for our customers. It has been, and continues to be, the pleasure of my professional life to work with all of you. To our customers: thank you for trusting us to support your growth and letting us partner with you. Thank you to our investors and supporters who’ve been with us on the journey. And thank you to my family for putting up with me talking about so, so many billing edge cases!

[Mark Jacobstein @mjacobstein]

Imagine trying to type an email by blowing into a straw.

For 8 million people in the US & Canada with upper limb impairment, this is their reality.

@axionlabsinc has built a solution that restores dignity and independence with Click, a non-invasive BCI.

Watch my full chat with @Reddy_XX and @TinTunjic at @southpkcommons below.

[Justin D'Souza @jqdsouza]

Every “agent security” vendor is trying to become the control plane for your agents.

At @asymptotelabs, we built the opposite.

Today, we’re excited to reintroduce our OSS Agent Beacon. Agent Beacon now supports full unified telemetry across endpoint, CI, and cloud agents.

The full agent execution trace, captured in a normalized schema that extends the OpenTelemetry standard.

We deeply believe every enterprise should own its system of record for agent activity.

Agent Beacon is our push to make that the default.

[Rajshekar Reddy @Reddy_XX]

Ivan had a spinal cord injury three years ago that left him quadriplegic.

Last week, he ordered dinner from his favorite restaurant by himself.

This level of control used to need brain surgery. Not anymore.

Introducing Click by @axionlabsinc.

[Craig Stanton @CJStanton]

@adityaag @spc_india @gagan_shux This is awesome

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

What an incredible experience to host one of the only two Indians who have gone to space @spc_india.

It is one of the joys of my job to be able to meet inspiring people and learn from them.

@gagan_shux's advice: "Dream big and stay curious".

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

Bevel is now in the top 10 in the US App Store for Health Apps.

A big thank you to all our users.

We have a lot left to do. Onwards.

[Dylan Itzikowitz @ditzikow]

The NYC deep tech community packed @southpkcommons NYC to hear @EricNewcomer moderate a panel with NYC's top frontier builders:

@PimDeWitte (@gen_intuition)
Rob Cochran (@faunarobotics acq by @amazon),
@josephfkrause ( @RadicalAI)

You can watch the full conversation below!

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

"First you shape the tools, then the tools shape you".

At SPC, our entire team is now writing code on a weekly basis. Two months ago, there were only 1-2 people writing code.

This has been incredible on many levels but the most interesting one is how the tools are now shaping us as a team:

- Everyone has a mindset towards automation and optimization.
- Latencies for everything are lower.
- People can focus on the more interesting parts of their roles.
- The scope of everyone's ambition has exploded

The key enabler was to make sure that everyone got AI coding-pilled.

If you are not doing this in your own company, then you are really really missing a beat.

[Craig Stanton @CJStanton]

@adityaag Why would anyone ever log info into a CRM again? Built a full note taking and filing system.

Oh and for fun built an app that finds the perfect credit card based on their last month of spending :)

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

It’s amazing when a $10B company sues you because your app "looks and feels" like theirs

Let me give you a tip: Instead of spending 300 bucks on an over-priced @WHOOP , you can get @bevel_health for free.

We want to bring great health to *everyone*.

We will build, not resort to lawfare.

[South Park Commons @southpkcommons]

Now's the time to be maximally ambitious.

Welcome to your next chapter at SPC, Founder Fellows.

Thanks for helping us kick things off in the redwoods, @anuraggoel.

[Luma @LumaLabsAI]

Uni-1 is here! A new kind of model that thinks and generates pixels simultaneously. Less artificial. More intelligent.

[Craig Stanton @CJStanton]

@gopalkraman @southpkcommons @spencerc99 @eddiejiao_obj @annieqxx @johnjyang @shermangrewal ambient intelligence + ambient electronica

[Finn Meeks @finn_meeks]

@Thom_Wolf is in town for GTC and swinging by @southpkcommons tomorrow to discuss LeRobot and the future of physical AI.

Join us if you are interested in programming the physical world! S/o to @willsentance and the SPC embodied AI group for sponsoring.

https://t.co/DqivOU871V

[South Park Commons @southpkcommons]

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