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.

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Members

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

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Abiel
Ying
After spending 12 years as a public market investor at hedge funds, I am now building AI assistant for institutional investors.
Jeremy
Currently: San Jose Earthquakes (ex: Portland Timbers). Pursuing off-field work ranging from early stage investing to nonprofit formation and leadership. Activating a diverse network through sport towards bringing innovative ideas & products to life.
Arman
Passionate about building a company that has significant social and economic impact. Right now I'm actively exploring the implications of a world where AI-generated content dominate the web and what it would look like the authenticate human artifacts (namely text).
Abhinav
Abhinav works on Computer Vision, AI/ML, & Robotics. He is an Associate Professor @ UMD. Before that, he was a visiting RS at Google AI. He completed his PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017, where he was a MSR Fellow.
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.
Kevin
Co-Founder and CEO @ Doppel.xyz. Formerly Staff Eng / EM @ Lyft, SWE @ Uber building Dispatch / Airspace platforms and shipping products. Georgetown alum based in SF, from Boston originally. I love playing basketball and spending time with my wife and dog
Kyle
Founder - Inflight.co, prev design at Airchat, Facebook, Tinder.
Braden
Building Clerk, Authentication for the Modern Web. Interested in making web applications more secure, and easier to build -- especially B2B SaaS. Web3 dabbler and vid climber of rocks and mountains, big and small.
Ben
Co-Founder, CEO at Transcend, the data infrastructure powering your privacy rights at your favorite brands. Formerly Computer Science at Harvard.

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
Breez Security
Abhinav Srivastava
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
VentureGuides
Epoch
Idan Beck
B2B SaaS
Seed
2021
Apero Health
Nick Shelly, Jacinda Shelly
Healthcare/Bio
Seed
2019
Y-Combinator, Initialized Capital
Foam
Perla Gamez, Shawn Krisman
B2B SaaS
Seed
2024
Inco
Remi Gai
Cryptocurrency
Seed
2022
1k(x)
Breezy
Saul Fuhrmann, Kevin Shi
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Mirage Security
Ross Lazerowitz, Nick DiRienzo
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Afore Capital
Particle
Hongzi Mao
Cryptocurrency
Seed
2023
Polychain, Inflection
Abstract Ops
Hari Raghavan
B2B SaaS
Seed
2019
Craft Ventures, Hustle Fund, 8VC
Surfboard
Chuhan Wang
B2B SaaS
Seed
2020

What do SPC members get?

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    Exploration

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    Connection

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    Resources

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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.

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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
© 2022 All rights reserved.