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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Scott
Co-founder @ Limo. Previously led Product Engineering at Rockset. Stanford CS
Michael
Founder of Plato. Build internal tools without coding.
Leah
Leah was the engineering leader for Slack's Enterprise products, building out Grid and growing the team 10x. Prior to that she co-founded zumper.com and worked at Google as an engineer and analyst.
Denizalp
Deni is a computer science Ph.D. candidate working at Brown University in the intersection of economics and AI. He has spent time as a visiting researcher at Google DeepMind, JP Morgan, and UC Berkeley's Simons Institute. He holds a BA from Columbia University.
Vishal
Sambhav
SPG@Affirm; avid squash player
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.
Avi
Avi is the former Head of Product at Neeva.com -- the world's first ad-free, private search engine. Prior to Neeva, he was at YouTube where he built & led a new ads business focused on shopping & commercial actions.
Tyler
Founder of Perfectly Imperfect, Ex-Meta Engineer, College Dropout, Occasional DJ, and Open-Source Developer.
Satish
ex-CEO @Polymorph (acquired by @Walmart ) • MS @Berkeley • Double majors in Electrical & Mechanical Engg • 30 Under30 award from India's #1 private university.

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

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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
Rajiv Ghanta
B2B SaaS
Seed
2022
8-Bit Capital
Arjun Mangla, Sambhav Anand
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Foundation Capital
Aman Gour, Sashank Gondala
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Luis Voloch, Mark Jacobstein
Healthcare/Bio
Seed
2024
Zetta Venture Partners, BoxGroup
Hish Bouabdallah
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Seed
2021
Kindred Ventures
Ryan McKinney
Consumer
Seed
2019
Slow Ventures
Priyaa Kalyanaraman, Purvanshi Mehta
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Accel
Edward Zhang, Fangchang Ma
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2024
Charles Maxwell Niu, Rohit Narayana Swamy
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Irfan-ali Manji, Paul Crouther
B2B SaaS
Pre-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.