We believe great ideas rarely come about in isolation

South Park Commons is a community of builders, technologists, and domain-experts that challenge you, encourage you, and help you build and validate your ideas. People join us at every stage of their career: from just out of school to mid-career faculty, from first-time entrepreneur to serial founders with successful exits. We leverage our collective expertise to help our members discover new ways of impacting the world.

south park commons community

Members

Quality over quantity. 700+ members from over 150 professional and academic networks.

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Peter
Currently: Previously: CEO and Cofounder @Atlas (acquired by PTON). Biomedical @Johns Hopkins
Shruti
Former founder excited to start my next company! My strengths are in Product & Ops. Ex-Google, Ex-Stripe.
Tejas
Consumer product leader w/experience in content, creator economy & gaming. Built ShareChat audio chatrooms and Moj Live, India’s largest UGC livestreaming platforms. Exploring gen AI for connection-driven products. Dabbling in mental health space and open to new ideas. Passionate about fitness, climbing & running.
Tony
Health-tech founder working on health transparency and access to care startup, just finished his PhD from Columbia
Jon
'- Toronto → SF → Beijing → SD → SF → DC - i really loved being a part of early Coursera, and i see so much of that at SPC. glad to be here. - currently exploring NFTs, web3, developer productivity - i'm very deep on frontend engineering (mostly the back of the frontend) as well as developer productivity and engineering culture.
Malcolm
Malcolm was the first employee at Asana and worked on many pieces of the infrastructure there. Before that he was on the Android team at Google and wrote much of the initial version of Gmail for Android.
Michael
Michael Lai's six word story is “failed professional athlete, striving education entrepreneur.” He is currently building Tinycare, a network of micro daycares aiming to fix the childcare crisis. Previously, he built Promise, a nonprofit venture studio for early childhood development, Minerva Project, Google.org, and competed on Harvard's varsity golf team (where he was decidedly NOT the next Tiger Woods). His passion for education starts from the classroom — 6 years volunteer teaching preschool, elementary, and middle school.
Warren
Warren was previously a Partner at Sequoia Capital where he worked shoulder-to-shoulder with founders to build large, enduring businesses.
Alex
Currently exploring new areas. Formerly first PM and first of many other roles at Cresta going from 0 -> unicorn and prior to Cresta, PM @ Google on Photos, Lens, and Search.
Charles
Design prototyper and co-founder of Frisson Labs. We're building AI companions that you'll cherish! In my free time I love designing board games and nerding out about history.

Diversity of Expertise

A Modern Day Xerox Parc

Our members have a diversity of expertise. After their time at SPC, a third join academia, research organizations, and philanthropies.

south park community domain experts, founders, academics, operators, open source contributors, founding engineers, and more

Organizations domain experts join after SPC

anthropic logoaspen institutechan zuckerberg initiativegoogle aiopen philanthrophy projectgenerally intelligentopen aiuniversity of california, berkeley

Companies

Over 150 companies and non-profits founded that have raised more than $3.5B in capital.

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SPC Company Founders Sector Stage Founded Investors
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Company
Founders
Sector
Stage
Founded
Investors
Joe Percoco, Clayton Gardner, Max Bernardy
FinTech
Unicorn
2018
General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz
Yaniv Tal, Brandon Ramirez, Jannis Pohlman
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Unicorn
2018
Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures, Tiger Global
Jeff Arnold, Waseem Daher, Jessica McKellar
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2016
Sequoia, Index Ventures, SV Angel
Mukesh Bansal, Ankit Nagori
Consumer
Unicorn
2016
Temasek, Zomato, Accel
Kanjun Qiu, Josh Albrecht
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2021
Astera Institute
Vidit Aatrey, Sanjeev Barnwal
Consumer
Unicorn
2015
B Capital, Fidelity
Abhishek Agarwal, Chris Park, Ryan Noon
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2017
Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund
Robert Leshner
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Unicorn
2018
Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures
Scott Wu, Steven Hao, Walden Yan
General Software
Unicorn
2024
Founders Fund
Amjad Masad, Haya Abdalla
Consumer
Unicorn
2016
Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue

Forums

Community-led learning intensives on topics like AI, crypto, biotech, climate tech, the creator economy, and more.

Squads

Small weekly peer groups focused on either personal growth or building, with a focus on support, accountability, and creative exchange.

Speaker Series

Exclusive conversations with experts in tech, venture, science, politics, and more. Past speakers include Ben Thompson, Julia Galef, Reid Hoffman, Chris Dixon, Alfred Lin, Salman Khan, and Susan Desmond-Hellmann, among many others.

Collaborative Spaces

We have community spaces in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco and the SoHo neighborhood in New York City to facilitate IRL connection and collaboration.

Community

50% of members find a co-founder or early collaborator within the community, many others get hired at SPC network organizations, and nearly all form deep relationships that persist long after graduation.

Speaker Series

Exclusive conversations with experts in tech, venture, science, politics, and more. Past speakers include Ben Thompson, Julia Galef, Reid Hoffman, Chris Dixon, Alfred Lin, Salman Khan, and Bruce Schneier, among many others.

Network

Access a network of domain experts in AI, Crypto, Fintech, etc., and founders and executives from seed stage to IPO companies such as Figma, Airtable, Pilot, SpaceX, and more.

Customers

Find early customers and beta testers within the community.

Fundraising

Raise funding from SPC Fund alongside a network of top funds and angels.

Credits

$200k in credits for cloud providers and most popular tools for startups.