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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Byron
I previously founded companies in EdTech and Ecommerce. Though I’ve been CTO for a while, my primary skills are in product, technical strategy, managing developers, and general strategy. Seeking co-founder(s) make a truly impactful product, probably leveraging Web3.
Tyler
Founder of Perfectly Imperfect, Ex-Meta Engineer, College Dropout, Occasional DJ, and Open-Source Developer.
Kush
3x entrepreneur and executive leader with 15+ years of experience in SaaS, Hardware and consumer products. Last I was the CPO&VP Engineering @Noise(wearables) and ex- CTO&COO @SenRa(SaaS/IoT). Currently into outdoor (adventure) sports, guitar and AI.
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.
Tremaine
Tre is the co-founder of Vori, an OS for the grocery industry. Previously, he was co-founder at Greo (YCS17), a video social network for meaningful conversations (Top 40 on app store). Previously design @ Google & Mozilla, and built a nationally recognized education non-profit.
Sudeep
Co-founder / CEO @ Autonomi AI | Ex-ML Engineering Lead @ToyotaResearch | CS PhD @MIT | #girldad
Scott
Software Engineer with experience in Autonomous Driving, VR/AR and On-Device Machine Learning. North Carolina -> SF Bay Area.
Chirag
Ex-Lyft. Growth hacker, Data/ML infra enthusiast, currently playing with LLMs. Loves to craft consumer experiences, solve genuine problems, and jump into building to get a product in front of users as fast as possible.
Aidan
Mahdi
Angel investing

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
Jonathan Mortensen
B2B SaaS
Seed
2024
Tiantian Zha, Max Akhterov
Healthcare/Bio
Seed
2023
Y-Combinator
Aman Gour, Sashank Gondala
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Vinay Jain, Aman Jain
Consumer Social
Seed
2022
Patron
Daniel Schmidt, Sumit Gupta
B2B SaaS
Seed
2020
Script Capital
Jonathan Arena, Adam Behrens
Consumer
Seed
2024
Arjun Mangla, Sambhav Anand
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Foundation Capital
Pierre Brunelle, Marcel Kornacker
General Software
Seed
2024
The General Partnership
Ross Lazerowitz, Nick DiRienzo
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Afore Capital
Rajiv Ghanta
B2B SaaS
Seed
2022
8-Bit Capital

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.