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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Ross
I’m currently exploring human-in-the-loop AI systems at ROSNIK AI with my longtime friend Nick DiRienzo. In my prior life, I was Head of Product at Observe Inc and a PM at Splunk. In my spare time, you will find me brewing beer, riding my bike, and reading any sci-fi I can get my hands on.
Gabor
3x startup founder with exits to Google and Twitter. Formerly: Director for consumer product incubator at Google, PM, and SWE. Things I like: Vercel, Supabase, PyTorch, Next.js (with reservations), and contributing to AI cookbooks on Github.
Brandon
Grace
Kintsugi is developing novel voice biomarker software to detect clinical depression and anxiety from 20-seconds of free-form speech, closing mental health care gaps across risk-bearing health systems, saving time and lives.
Abhishyant
Prev eng at Gantry and at Samsara. Currently exploring better local dev for AI agents and also making messaging fun again. Also an avid runner, public transit enthusiast and always looking for a tennis partner!
Sam
Sam is a 2x YC founder (with two exits). He has ten years of experience building ML products, ran photos at Facebook, built Dropbox's 0-1 AI incubator, and led the Fivestars product pivot to Payments (resulting in a $317M exit).
Hamza
Working on potrerolabs.xyz, a start-up to empower creators and their communities. Previously engineering at Facebook. Love to go skiing, camping and do other outdoor shenanigans.
Nick
Co-founder at ROSNIK AI, working on improving the experience of human in the loop AI systems. Previously, built software to scale Modern Health and Optimizely. Happy to chat about all things startups, software engineering, distributed systems, mental health, and food.
Varun
I'm part of the FF4 -- previously worked at Transferwise and Instacart. Exploring new ideas and always excited to meet new people so please reach out!
Andrea
Highly curious BME and self taught Dev.

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
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
Yaniv Tal, Brandon Ramirez, Jannis Pohlman
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Unicorn
2018
Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures, Tiger Global
Scott Wu, Steven Hao, Walden Yan
General Software
Unicorn
2024
Founders Fund
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
Ashutosh Garg, Varun Kacholia
Human Capital
Unicorn
2016
Foundation Capital, Lightspeed
Joe Percoco, Clayton Gardner, Max Bernardy
FinTech
Unicorn
2018
General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz
Amjad Masad, Haya Abdalla
Consumer
Unicorn
2016
Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue
Vidit Aatrey, Sanjeev Barnwal
Consumer
Unicorn
2015
B Capital, Fidelity

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.