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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Andrew
Software engineer, previously worked at Figma on the product and the engine, Berkeley CS. Interested in computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning.
Tripp
I'm working on an AI coaching app with my cofounder. Based out of Brooklyn!
Hailun
Helen led product design teams at Facebook and Cruise and specialized in designing consumer and business products. She is exploring new ideas with her co-founder.
Mahdi
Angel investing
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.
Jason
I am a machine learning engineer, who spent the past couple of years at Stitchfix and Facebook. I’m taking a break to explore new ideas. I also do jiu jitsu and freediving and pottery as well so hit me up if any of that interests you!
Sudeep
Co-founder / CEO @ Autonomi AI | Ex-ML Engineering Lead @ToyotaResearch | CS PhD @MIT | #girldad
Ross
I’m currently exploring human-in-the-loop AI systems at ROSNIK AI with my longtime friend Nick DiRienzo. In my prior life, I was Head of Product at Observe Inc and a PM at Splunk. In my spare time, you will find me brewing beer, riding my bike, and reading any sci-fi I can get my hands on.
Avery
Co-founder @symphoniclabs, UWaterloo Eng 24 prev @tesla, Building neural interafaces for silent speech
Claudio
Creative Technologist working on the intersection of AI, Geographic Information Systems, and Software. Focusing on building spatially aware machine learning models and collaborating with Open Source projects.

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
Scott Cara
FinTech
Pre-seed
2024
Y-Combinator
Wenlong Ma, Wei Ding, Christopher McQuin, Wenda Wang
Robotics
Pre-seed
2024
Sanjay Saraf
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Max Mona, Andrew Jebasingh
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2024
Michael Gump, Allison Fu
Consumer Social
Pre-seed
2024
Nathan Lord, Sam Liu
Consumer
Pre-seed
2024
Nic Baird, Herrick Fang, Mike Choi
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
AJ Ding, Raymond Miao
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2024
Bryson Jones, Guglielmo Daddi
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2024
William Williams
Consumer Software
Pre-seed
2022

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.