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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.

Portrait of Amara Okafor
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.

Amara Okafor
Studio Lead
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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
Portrait of James Mercer
James Mercer
Investments

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

James Mercer
Investments
Portrait of Priya Raman
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
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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
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Daniel Abara
Validation

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

Daniel Abara
Validation
Portrait of Marcus Hale
Marcus Hale
Design

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

Marcus Hale
Design
Portrait of Nina Torres
Nina Torres
Engineering

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

Nina Torres
Engineering