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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Veer
Veer is a CS major from MIT specializing in AI and distributed systems. He's currently building Inflight, a platform that democratizes access to expert feedback, enabling teams to build better products. Previously, Veer built Airchat for two years.
Vaibhav
Previous stint as CEO at Hubilo. Have an understanding on how to build global platforms and teams and sell through India-US corridor. Mission for the next venture is to build something that has a multiplier effect on the GDP of India.
Sumit
EE and CS @ Stanford. Previously CEO/cofounder of Glowstick, an AI-based 3D and animation suite. Before that I was the first AI hire @ All turtles (raised 100m+ for a zoom competitor), and was a search engineer @ laserlike (acq'd by Apple in 2019).
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.
Dinkar
Previously, Director of Product at Meta and enthusiastic about applications of AI
Bryson
Bryson is a builder that is excited about creating software and AI systems that interact with the physical world.
Vinayak
I am a scientist by training so I like to ask lot of questions and I am a fan from first principles thinking. I loved programming since I was 5 and have built algorithms and systems working collaboratively with biologist, chemist, scientists and automation engineers to reliably scale measurement of biological systems (mostly human DNA) and predicting propensity for disease. Outside work, I love the outdoors and playing and following team sports.
Shishira
Shishira is a PhD student at UMD working on video compression and understanding. He has experience with labs at Snap and Apple and was also a researcher at IISc Bangalore. Currently passionate about building systems that understand the world!
Rasty
Chronic founder. Currently exploring cross section of gen AI and social media.
Cristian
founder @ Autograph host @ Rabbit Hole Research author @ TRACES 📍 SF Past: VC @ Cibersons, AI Engineer @ Google, Symbolic Systems @ Stanford

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

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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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Founders
Sector
Stage
Founded
Investors
Ang Li, Jiachen Yang
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Basis Set Ventures
Vinay Jain, Aman Jain
Consumer Social
Seed
2022
Patron
Kevin Walker
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Sentinel Global
Archit Karandikar, Sanjeev Shenoy
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Victor Hunt, Daniel Tian
B2B SaaS
Seed
2022
Tony Garvan
B2B SaaS
Seed
2021
Bloomberg Beta, Script Capital
Perla Gamez, Shawn Krisman
B2B SaaS
Seed
2024
Benjamin Guo, Rob Cheung
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Lightspeed
Ryan McKinney
Consumer
Seed
2019
Slow Ventures
Dylan Babbs, James Cadwallader
B2B SaaS
Seed
2024
Khosla Ventures, Saga 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.