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.

See More
Aaron
Aaron co-founded Matrix Operations, a high-frequency trading firm operating in NYC and London. He designed the software infrastructure and am responsible for realtime performance of the trading systems.
Yi
Yi is an assistant professor of statistics at UChicago. His research is in probability and applications to machine learning and high dimensional statistics.
Bilal
Nathan
Co-founder @ Post Perception, improving our ability to measure and manage the physical world. Previously: Software @ Humane, Meta, NVIDIA, Eyefluence (acq. Google). Background in cameras and embedded systems. Proud parent of a Lego-obsessed toddler.
Sonia
Currently metalearning across multi-agent reinforcement learning, web 3, speculative science fiction, and multi-billion dollar bets... Twitter: @soniajoseph_
Kanjun
Kanjun Qiu is the CEO of Generally Intelligent, an AI research company building human-like general intelligence by evolving self-supervised architectures to tackle human developmental milestones of increasing complexity. Kanjun is interested in human agency, institutions for discovery, social technologies, and understanding what machine learning algorithms might teach us about psychology.
Sara
Sara Du cofounded Alloy, an iPaaS backed by $27M from a16z, BCV, YC, & others. Originally from Atlanta, she did a year at Harvard before dropping out and accepting the Thiel Fellowship. On the side, she angel invests and helps other founders with GTM.
Brian
Life-long early-stage, co-founding engineer focused on building teams and making useful products on systems that don't page.
Christopher
Founding Engineer, CTO, bootstrapper, then CEO. Two exits. Experienced in regulated fintech.
Rui
Engineer and Researcher. Cofounder/CTO of Expedock - Forbes Under 30. Working on something new.

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.

Sector
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
SPC Company Founders Sector Stage Founded Investors
See More
Company
Founders
Sector
Stage
Founded
Investors
Ashutosh Garg, Varun Kacholia
Human Capital
Unicorn
2016
Foundation Capital, Lightspeed
Abhishek Agarwal, Chris Park, Ryan Noon
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2017
Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund
Mukesh Bansal, Ankit Nagori
Consumer
Unicorn
2016
Temasek, Zomato, Accel
Vidit Aatrey, Sanjeev Barnwal
Consumer
Unicorn
2015
B Capital, Fidelity
Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2013
Coatue, Thrive Capital, Benchmark
Kanjun Qiu, Josh Albrecht
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2021
Astera Institute
Yaniv Tal, Brandon Ramirez, Jannis Pohlman
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Unicorn
2018
Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures, Tiger Global
Amjad Masad, Haya Abdalla
Consumer
Unicorn
2016
Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue
Scott Wu, Steven Hao, Walden Yan
General Software
Unicorn
2024
Founders Fund
Robert Leshner
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Unicorn
2018
Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures

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.