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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Phil
Priyaa
Jaggie
A surfer with a back ground in AI application and marketplace/consumer tech. Prev working at Bytedance, P&G, Poshmark and my own startup
Daniel
Dwight
Founder, Chairman of Board for Whisper.ai. We are a team of artificial intelligence, hearing care, hardware, and software experts coming together to solve the challenge of providing better hearing.
James
Exploring healthcare and government. Previously at US Digital Service, 1st product manager @ Color Health, Dropbox, Google. Meditator, improviser, fan of Chipotle.
Michael
Founder of Plato. Build internal tools without coding.
Michelle
Exploring mass electrification and ways to build critical power grid infrastructure.
Peter
I’m currently exploring web3. Previously I cofounded SBLY.com, a bootstrapped company that hit $90M in TR.
Matt
Building in health tech. Previously GM of Healthcare at Noom, COO and co-founder of Renew Health.

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
Pranav Patil, Yevgeniy Barkalov, Andrea Russo
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Andrew Duca
Cryptocurrency
Pre-seed
2022
Script Capital
Bryson Jones, Guglielmo Daddi
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2024
Brian Chu, Omar Marin Ceja Jr
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Irfan-ali Manji, Paul Crouther
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2024
Archa Jain
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Nathan Lord, Sam Liu
Consumer
Pre-seed
2024
Jeff Shaw
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Zack Brown, Warfa Jibril
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2023
Edward Zhang, Fangchang Ma
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.