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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Josh
Exploring applications of computer use models. Previously built and sold PDF.ai (1m+ users). Former founding engineer at PropelAuth (YC W22).
Amy
Phil
Luke
Researcher in persuasion & AI. PhD@MIT; Postdoc@Stanford; Co-founder Rhetorical Labs. I develop computational and experimental tools for discovering what changes people’s attitudes. I know about: RCTs, LLMs, expert forecasts and Bayesian models, advocacy.
Tyler
Founder of Perfectly Imperfect, Ex-Meta Engineer, College Dropout, Occasional DJ, and Open-Source Developer.
Jaclyn
Jaclyn worked at Alphabet for 7 years in a variety of operational roles. She helped launch Google Helpouts (a consumer marketplace to deliver expertise over live video) and most recently worked at CapitalG helping portfolio companies scale.
Shannon
Working in Responsible AI and AI governance, and exploring how to build technology in service of a more just society. Previously, a PM at Scale AI. Berkeley alum. Based in San Francisco, and often found in NYC and Shanghai. Let's go sailing together.
Anton
Building 24/7 🔨
Claudio
Creative Technologist working on the intersection of AI, Geographic Information Systems, and Software. Focusing on building spatially aware machine learning models and collaborating with Open Source projects.
Zack
Freelance ML consultant; especially interested in research into reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning, and AI safety. Also deeply thinking about governmental dysfunction + what to do about it, but so far no breakthroughs :/

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
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SPC Company Founders Sector Stage Founded Investors
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Company
Founders
Sector
Stage
Founded
Investors
Dhruv Guliani, William Wen
B2B SaaS
Seed
2022
Kleiner Perkins
Harshvardhan Sikka
General Software
Seed
2024
Ben Easton, Mel van London
Healthcare/Bio
Seed
2023
Afore Capital
Tong Pow
Consumer
Seed
2021
Polychain
Mona Gandhi
Human Capital
Seed
2019
Lightspeed
Nick Shelly, Jacinda Shelly
Healthcare/Bio
Seed
2019
Y-Combinator, Initialized Capital
Ross Lazerowitz, Nick DiRienzo
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Afore Capital
Drishan Arora, Dhruv Malhotra
General Software
Seed
2024
Benjamin Guo, Rob Cheung
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Lightspeed
Ev Tchebotarev, Arseniy Ivanov
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Seed
2021
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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.