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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Reginald
Previously an engineer at Affirm, Growth EM at Motive, and EIR at HVF Labs. Working on startup building an access management platform.
Ryan
Ryan is an AI researcher (prev. AI2, UIUC, UofT, MIT, Oxford) who works on large-scale multimodal models and datasets. Now exploring new strategies for dataset sourcing and curation with the goal of creating more capable open source foundation models.
Kendrick
Kendrick is exploring the intersection of AI/ML with climate (especially energy), but is open to other areas (including emerging markets). He has 8 years of VC experience and has a data science background. He is a Stanford alum and is Filipino-American.
Farhan
Builder with background taking recommendation, analysis and communication systems from 0->public co. Interested in socially impactful tech to promote user agency and access.
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.
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.
Rohit
'- Founding ML Engineer [Compliance & AI Voice Calling] @ Salient - Leading game engine & tooling development [TFT / League of Legends] @ Riot Games - SQL Server & Telemetry @ Microsoft - EECS @ UC Berkeley big car fan (currently own a ND Miata)!
Henry
Exploring ideas in the AI + SRE world. Prev cold emailed my way to an early eng job @ Bubble, wound up leading product on Bubble's Infra + AI teams, then left once the company had 5x'd in size. Applied Math/CS @ Harvard. Occasional semi-pro musician.
Aditya
Verticalized AI for property managers
Sanjeev
Co-founder, coinvent.ai

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
Arman Jaffer
EdTech
Seed
2023
Owl Ventures
Chuhan Wang
B2B SaaS
Seed
2020
Abhinav Srivastava
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
VentureGuides
D. Sivakumar, Uma Mahadevan
B2B SaaS
Seed
2021
Mike Wadhera, Brad Vaccaro
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Tiantian Zha, Max Akhterov
Healthcare/Bio
Seed
2023
Y-Combinator
Jonathan Mortensen
B2B SaaS
Seed
2024
Eric Ho, Tom McGrath, Daniel Balsam
General Software
Seed
2024
Lightspeed
Kanishk Vashisht, Reginald Long
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Caffeinated Capital, SciFi VC
Tyler Bainbridge
Content/Media
Seed
2024

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.