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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Wenda
AI + Robotics, Ex Apple, CMU
Christopher
Chris is an entrepreneur and engineer from Waterloo, Canada. With a background in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Chris has worked at several companies doing software, firmware, neurotechnology research, and machine learning.
Arthur
Hello, I am Art. I am a US Navy veteran and self-taught developer. I live in San Diego with my wife and two kids. I am passionate about serving my community and solutioneering using technology. I like video games, space opera books, AI and cats.
Michael
Founder of Plato. Build internal tools without coding.
Geoff
Founder of Apollo GraphQL, MeteorJS, Monument, and others
George
George is researching cryptocurrency/web3 ideas for founding, investment, advisory, and incubation. He was previously the COO for dYdX (https://dydx.exchange/), the largest decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies and creator of its own layer 1 chain for crypto perpetual trading. He has extensive experience operating in crypto (as an operator at dYdX, as one of the product leads for OlympusDAO, as a consultant for Anchorage, and as an investor, advisor, and angel in 10-20 other cryptocurrency companies). Prior to this, George worked in technology and venture backed startups (founder/CEO of Moonship - a social ecommerce company backed by Accel, Max Levchin, etc. and AirCare - a cardiology readmission healthcare tech company backed by First Round Capital, NIH SBIR grants, etc. ), adtech product lead at Facebook that grew the adtech groups at Facebook from 0->200 people and to billions of revenue, in management consulting roles at McKinsey, and in finance/investing roles at Goldman Sachs and TPG Axon.
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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.
Wei
Robotics decision making and software architect. Ex Apple SPG, currently building general purpose humanoid robots.
Ihsan
Ihsan enjoys spending time with people. More specifically, he likes hearing their stories, learning from them, jamming on ideas, and/or creating things together. Those themes were ever present in his professional journey, which can be found on LinkedIn.

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
Saul Fuhrmann, Kevin Shi
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Jonathan Arena, Adam Behrens
Consumer
Seed
2024
Luis Voloch, Mark Jacobstein
Healthcare/Bio
Seed
2024
Zetta Venture Partners, BoxGroup
Dylan Babbs, James Cadwallader
B2B SaaS
Seed
2024
Khosla Ventures, Saga Ventures
Hari Raghavan
B2B SaaS
Seed
2019
Craft Ventures, Hustle Fund, 8VC
Tiantian Zha, Max Akhterov
Healthcare/Bio
Seed
2023
Y-Combinator
Matt Cooper, Evan Cater, Michael Gillett
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Kevin Walker
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Sentinel Global
Amir Ghorbani, Pete Evenson, Ruben Schultz
B2B SaaS
Seed
2018
Script Capital, Signia Venture Partners
Daniel Schmidt, Sumit Gupta
B2B SaaS
Seed
2020
Script 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.