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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Anton
Building 24/7 🔨
Ramasadagopan
You can call me Ram. Built & led teams across Google, Apple & Meta. Expertise in Firmware, OS, Wireless, Android. Early stage engineering experience as well.
Ryan
Daniel
Currently exploring ideas around productivity tools and infrastructure. Former product manager at Google and founding engineer at New Computer.
Ritika
As a business and growth leader, Ritika has helped startups scale 0-1/1-10 in her roles at Urban Company, Open Secret and Quizizz. She graduated from IITBombay & HBS and is interested in building for India. Passionate about early childhood & wellness
Arjun
Worked as a software engineer on the platform and tools team at Facebook. Zillow and Microsoft before that. Explored angel investing + engineering at startups including Detour, Thistle, Dandelion Chocolate, Taika and others.
Abhinav
Abhinav is a builder with experience with Marketplaces, Search, and Distributed systems & ML Infra. Currently interested in all things Web3.
Dakota
Lifelong Midwesterner, currently living in Kansas City along with the wife and two pets (dog-Sunny, cat-Kit Cat). I'm passionate about building solutions with outcomes of healthier communities and people, which is what has led me to working in an endeavor that's aimed at helping to drive adoption of regenerative agriculture. (check out Rooted Ag) Beyond work, I love spending time in nature and observing, making warm connections with people, and listening to good music.
Gaurav
Results-driven, hands-on software engineering leader with 18+ years of experience in building products. Solid communicator, able to forge relationships with key stakeholders. Brings joy, empathy, experience, and positive energy to the workplace.
Gabor
3x startup founder with exits to Google and Twitter. Formerly: Director for consumer product incubator at Google, PM, and SWE. Things I like: Vercel, Supabase, PyTorch, Next.js (with reservations), and contributing to AI cookbooks on Github.

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
Mona Gandhi
Human Capital
Seed
2019
Lightspeed
Rajiv Ghanta
B2B SaaS
Seed
2022
8-Bit Capital
Ang Li, Jiachen Yang
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Basis Set Ventures
Dhruv Guliani, William Wen
B2B SaaS
Seed
2022
Kleiner Perkins
Nadia Eldeib, Jared Cosulich
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Seed
2021
boldstart ventures
Howard Zuo, Arthur Wu
B2B SaaS
Seed
2020
Y-Combinator
Ryan McKinney
Consumer
Seed
2019
Slow Ventures
Prabhas Pokharel, Robert Ochshorn
B2B SaaS
Seed
2017
Greylock
Alexendar Pérez
Healthcare/Bio
Seed
2021
Arman Jaffer
EdTech
Seed
2023
Owl Ventures

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.