# July 2026 Update

> Source: <https://blog.southparkcommons.com/p/july-2026-update>
> Published: 2026-07-31 18:25:01+00:00

July brought our largest Demo Faire yet, a hands-on robotics hack day in New York, exciting new company launches, and a packed calendar across SF, NYC, and Bangalore.

# The $1M Founder Fellowship closes August 2nd

[Founder Fellowship](https://www.southparkcommons.com/news/f26-founder-fellowship) applications are due [August 2nd](https://www.southparkcommons.com/apply). The time to be maximally ambitious is now. Fellows join a community whose members have gone on to build companies like Luma, Profound, Render, Doppel, Baseten, and Goodfire. [Apply here.](https://www.southparkcommons.com/apply)

# Summer Demo Faire

This week we hosted our most ambitious ** Demo Faire** yet: over 25 companies demoed live in San Francisco to a packed room of investors and builders. The lineup spanned hypersonic ground launchers, wildfire-detection sensors, new drug chemistry once thought impossible, agents handling real enterprise workflows, and generative fashion intelligence.

# Fund Updates

raised a[Preseen](https://preseen.com/)[$5.6M seed round](https://www.southparkcommons.com/news/preseen-why-we-invested)led by SPC to build forecasting agents for global macro events.raised an[Nirva](https://www.nirva.life/)[$8M seed round](https://www.southparkcommons.com/news/why-spc-invested-in-nirva)led by Lightspeed with participation from SPC, to build an AI wearable that listens only to you and turns your day into a journal, coach, and companion.

# Member Updates

**Product Launches & Company News**

[Chip](https://chipmotors.com/)publicly[Motors](https://chipmotors.com/)[launched](https://x.com/jamesoniam/status/2077432470375731467)their LUV: Life Utility Vehicle.launched on the App Store, an accessibility-first AI voice assistant that lets you talk to your inbox instead of staring at a screen.[Lumin](https://www.trylumin.ai/)

**Personal Projects, Explorations & Publications**

**Eric** created[Ghost Font](https://x.com/ericlu/status/2075876651574210643), a font only humans can read.**David** built[NYC sim](https://x.com/davidfromkansas/status/2075691129899528254), a digital twin simulation of New York City.**Jake** created (and livestreamed)[armcade.tv](https://armcade.tv), letting anyone remote-control two robots playing chess against each other.**Achyut** released[a benchmark for long-list extraction](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/achyutjoshi_this-week-anton-serhii-and-akhil-open-sourced-activity-7483906337827971072-cnb5)from messy, long documents.**Jasper** wrote[a post on bottom-up learning in models](https://x.com/0xjasper/status/2078168314497696118)

# Events at SPC

In addition to Demo Faire, we hosted a large slate of events across locations. In NYC we brought experts in for ** The Future of Biosecurity** panel (moderated by member Amit Gupta) digging into how quickly AI is lowering the barrier to engineered biological threats. Our

**with Ramp, Anthropic, Clay, Hebbia, and Browserbase followed, turning the room over to the tools teams are building for themselves. The month closed with a**

[Design Tools Demo Night](https://x.com/ditzikow/status/2077421711582953772)**, where builders spent a Friday getting robots to do something real.**

[Hack Day with Viam Robotics](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/60-engineers-spent-friday-building-robots-ugcPost-7488610653235191808-werl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACqIypAB2GNziqlkie8FU8_1OJ-Xn2EQuTo)In SF, ** Guardant Health CEO Helmy Eltoukhy** chatted with us about building a cancer diagnostics company for more than a decade.

SPC India hosted a fireside chat with ** Thejo Kote**, founder of Journal, Airbase, and Automatic, and a conversation on foundational science with

**Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar**, Director of ICTS-TIFR.

# Recent Content

We released a [conversation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1VXHRlH54) between SPC GP **Evan Tana** and SPC alum **Thariq Shihipar**, who leads Claude Code at Anthropic, on what it takes to build a product that developers reorganize their work around.

Thanks for reading!

Founder Fellowship applications close August 2nd. [Apply to SPC now.](https://www.southparkcommons.com/apply)