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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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.
Rob
into film, computation, writing, social systems. previously founding engineer at substack, founding engineer at fin.com, early team / technical lead at venmo
Aman
I'm a licensed pilot and love flying Cessnas in the NorCal area. I've got about 10 years of experience working on 0 to 1 projects at Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta's internal innovation lab.
Yoav
Previously: CEO & Founder @SimpleEnergy & President @Uplight. Splitting time btwn Boulder, CO, and SF.
Dhawal
Successful entrepreneur with background in eCommerce, AR, & Ad-Tech. Previously, I co-founded a venture backed startup that resulted in a successful exit to Walmart. I can help on go-to-market plans as well as product-market fit problems
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.
Ben
Andrew
Software engineer, previously worked at Figma on the product and the engine, Berkeley CS. Interested in computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning.
Emily
Repeat founder with deep product and SaaS experience. Exploring my next venture in the climate-space (particularly in Energy, Built environment). I live in SF with my husband and mini sheepadoodle but am the proud owner of a 617 phone number.
Michael
Michael Lai's six word story is “failed professional athlete, striving education entrepreneur.” He is currently building Tinycare, a network of micro daycares aiming to fix the childcare crisis. Previously, he built Promise, a nonprofit venture studio for early childhood development, Minerva Project, Google.org, and competed on Harvard's varsity golf team (where he was decidedly NOT the next Tiger Woods). His passion for education starts from the classroom — 6 years volunteer teaching preschool, elementary, and middle school.

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
Ross Lazerowitz, Nick DiRienzo
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Afore Capital
Ciro Greco, Jacopo Tagliabue, Mattia Pavoni
B2B SaaS
Seed
2022
Innovation Endeavors
Aman Gour, Sashank Gondala
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Saul Fuhrmann, Kevin Shi
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Ev Tchebotarev, Arseniy Ivanov
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Seed
2021
1Confirmation
Dhruv Guliani, William Wen
B2B SaaS
Seed
2022
Kleiner Perkins
Benjamin Guo, Rob Cheung
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Lightspeed
Ying Hua, Timothy Liu
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Audacious Ventures
Sami Ramly
Gaming
Seed
2024
Andreessen Horowitz
Hari Raghavan
B2B SaaS
Seed
2019
Craft Ventures, Hustle Fund, 8VC

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.