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.

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Members

Quality over quantity. 700+ members from over 150 professional and academic networks.

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Zack
Freelance ML consultant; especially interested in research into reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning, and AI safety. Also deeply thinking about governmental dysfunction + what to do about it, but so far no breakthroughs :/
Vinayak
I am a scientist by training so I like to ask lot of questions and I am a fan from first principles thinking. I loved programming since I was 5 and have built algorithms and systems working collaboratively with biologist, chemist, scientists and automation engineers to reliably scale measurement of biological systems (mostly human DNA) and predicting propensity for disease. Outside work, I love the outdoors and playing and following team sports.
Neal
Max
Climate-tech founder, new to SF. Since my acquisition 6 months ago, I've focused on energy & grid management and construction-tech. Based on my experience, I'd like to explore if agentic AI can help mitigate complex and messy workflows in these areas.
Kevin
Formerly at Databricks (via an acquisition) building Vector Search to GA, one of its fastest-growing products by revenue. Was an early engineer at Eightfold.AI & led infrastructure as the company became a unicorn.
Jiayun
Lifelong learner and builder currently trying to accelerate building decarbonization. Studied CS and global health at Harvard and then built stuff in edtech and civic tech. Occasionally backpacks, trail runs, and flops around outside.
Vinay
Building something new in Web3. Previously startup founder, Product @ Facebook. Manchester United fan and Pizzaterian for life.
Tong
Co-Founder & CEO of hologram.xyz. Previously 0x (Matcha), robotics, Penn, and freelance photography.
Mike
Founded Skip (YC W18) now working on something new. Terrestrial and Internet Explorer.
Abby
Abby was CEO of Record360 (acquired by Point of Rental in 2024). She also cofounded Backer, a venture-backed fintech company for college savings. Looking to explore new technologies that could change financial services, education, and the future of work.

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.

Sector
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SPC Company Founders Sector Stage Founded Investors
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Company
Founders
Sector
Stage
Founded
Investors
Edward Zhang, Fangchang Ma
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2024
David Michaels, Sean Howell
Consumer
Pre-seed
2024
Brian Chu, Omar Marin Ceja Jr
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
AJ Ding, Raymond Miao
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2024
Jason Morrison, Brian Fields
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Pranav Patil, Yevgeniy Barkalov, Andrea Russo
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Alex Roe, Tripp Roberts
Consumer
Pre-seed
2023
Andrea Morales Coto, Kenan O'Neal
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Rhys Algar, Dakota Welch
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2024
Slow Ventures
Sanjay Saraf
General Software
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.