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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Adrienne
Adrienne is currently investing (real estate, data + dev tools) and exploring new ideas in the search fund / investing space. Previously, Adrienne was a Product Manager designing the in-car experience at Tesla, an APM at Google, and an associate at Bridgewater.
Ted
Early Instacart engineer exploring new ideas & domains
Dhruv
Dhruv is an ex-Googler with experience working on Machine Learning problems involving language and privacy. He likes thinking about big problems from first principles, appreciates thoughtful design in tech, and enjoys writing.
Geoff
Founder of Apollo GraphQL, MeteorJS, Monument, and others
Andrea
Andy leads the design of tools for devs and creatives, all through the lens of play. She started her career in 2010 as a filmmaker and game designer, which gave her a sharp eye for storytelling, and 10 years ago delved into product design and game design. She was the first transmedia filmmaker in Central America and cofounded the first Interaction Design school in the area. In the past she has worked at ConsenSys, MongoDB, and Roblox. Working on www.gethottake.com and www.beepboop.world
Abhishyant
Prev eng at Gantry and at Samsara. Currently exploring better local dev for AI agents and also making messaging fun again. Also an avid runner, public transit enthusiast and always looking for a tennis partner!
Hailun
Helen led product design teams at Facebook and Cruise and specialized in designing consumer and business products. She is exploring new ideas with her co-founder.
Malcolm
Malcolm was the first employee at Asana and worked on many pieces of the infrastructure there. Before that he was on the Android team at Google and wrote much of the initial version of Gmail for Android.
James
Jouya
Jouya has worked on multi-physics simulations, perception for autonomy, human-computer interaction, mixed reality and wireless technologies. He is currently focusing on developing safe, secure, private and personalized AI agents.

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
Hish Bouabdallah
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Seed
2021
Kindred Ventures
Samantha Whitmore, Jason Yuan
Consumer Software
Seed
2022
OpenAI
Tiantian Zha, Max Akhterov
Healthcare/Bio
Seed
2023
Y-Combinator
Ev Tchebotarev, Arseniy Ivanov
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Seed
2021
1Confirmation
Zain Memon
Consumer Software
Seed
2021
Khosla Ventures
Saul Fuhrmann, Kevin Shi
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Zorayr Khalapyan, Shahmeer Navid
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Seed
2021
Victor Hunt, Daniel Tian
B2B SaaS
Seed
2022
Jonathan Mortensen
B2B SaaS
Seed
2024
Ross Lazerowitz, Nick DiRienzo
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Afore 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.