The bench
Who actually
builds them
Product, design, engineering, and capital in one room. Every venture borrows the bench until it can hire its own. Hover a photo for details.

Amara Okafor
Studio Lead
Founding partner. Built and sold a payments business before starting the garage; chairs the thesis pipeline and every kill-criteria review.

Elena Vasquez
Head of Build
Partner, product. Ran product at two scale-ups and now leads the bench that takes each venture from prototype to shippable v1.
Elena Vasquez
Head of Build

James Mercer
Investments
Partner, capital. Twelve years in early-stage venture; structures every spin-out and runs the follow-on process through Series A.

Priya Raman
Founder Recruiting
Head of talent. Sources and closes the founding CEOs who take our validated ventures to market, and hires the first five behind them.
Priya Raman
Founder Recruiting

Sofia Lindqvist
Operations
Head of studio ops. Keeps four build sprints running in parallel and owns the finance, legal, and hiring rails every venture shares.
Sofia Lindqvist
Operations

Daniel Abara
Validation
Principal, ventures. Designs the market tests that decide whether a thesis gets built — and writes the memo when it does not.

Marcus Hale
Design
Venture architect. Leads product design across the portfolio, from first clickable prototype to the brand a venture spins out with.

Nina Torres
Engineering
Venture architect. Ships v1 platforms across ventures and hands each codebase to the founding engineering team at spin-out.
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