Prateek Mehta

Partner, South Park Commons · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mehta leads South Park Commons' India office and early-stage investments in Bengaluru, supporting founders during the pre-ideation "-1 to 0" phase. He previously co-founded fintech platforms Scripbox and Upwardly, and held senior executive roles at Myntra and Angel One.

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Insight

Mehta: Failures have anecdotal value, but success teaches like nothing else

“Failures have high anecdotal value, but success teaches you like no one else.”

Prateek Mehta Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 38:13 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

Disclosure

Mehta: SPC rejects fixed market theses for "axes of curiosity"

“When we invest, we don't, we're not talking about thesis and right. This market is going to go this way. We're talking about access of curiosity, which is something that we publish every six months. We talk about what are the broad areas where we believe thing…”

Prateek Mehta Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 28:59 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

Disclosure

Mehta: SPC invests $400K at pre-seed and $600K at seed

“And typically what we do is we commit a million dollars to a team at the pre-seed stage. So, 400 K at the pre-seed stage and at least 600 K at the seed.”

Prateek Mehta Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 8:20 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

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Mehta: South Park Commons' selection rate is under one percent

“The selection rate for the community is less than one percent, right? So by way of number of applications that come in and the number of people who actually get an access to the community, right?”

Prateek Mehta Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 12:26 From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta	Dec 5, 2025	11m

Prateek Mehta

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