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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Kalvin
I’m a software engineer interesting in applying SV’s optimism and maker mindset to an especially challenging question: can we build software that helps people feel like they have enough and are enough, instead of amplifying and exploiting our fears of never enough?
Vivek
Vivek has been an AI researcher at Google, working on applied AI problems in healthcare. Earlier, he worked at Facebook AI research on multimodal assistant systems.
Vish
Software engineer, full-stack & ML. Launched & scaled an enterprise MLOps product @ Weights & Biases. Built WhyBot, an educational AI app that won the AngelList Agents hackathon. Trained breast cancer mammogram models for the NYU Hospital. NYU & Duke alum.
Jouya
Jouya has worked on multi-physics simulations, perception for autonomy, human-computer interaction, mixed reality and wireless technologies. He is currently focusing on developing safe, secure, private and personalized AI agents.
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.
Andrea
Highly curious BME and self taught Dev.
Aditya
Verticalized AI for property managers
Luke
Researcher in persuasion & AI. PhD@MIT; Postdoc@Stanford; Co-founder Rhetorical Labs. I develop computational and experimental tools for discovering what changes people’s attitudes. I know about: RCTs, LLMs, expert forecasts and Bayesian models, advocacy.
Chase
2x syn-bio founder with >$11M raised. Building AI scientists with frontier intelligence models (gpt-x) and combining them with cloud laboratories -- automated science facilities for remote experimentation -- to build self-driving systems for biology.
Abhishek
Born in Delhi. Moved to the US to study systems at Carnegie Mellon. Worked at Microsoft -> Google -> Replit. My expertise lies at the intersection of Distributed Systems and Operating Systems. Exploring Linux Sandboxing for AI Agents.

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
Pranav Patil, Yevgeniy Barkalov, Andrea Russo
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Nathan Lord, Sam Liu
Consumer
Pre-seed
2024
Scott Cara
FinTech
Pre-seed
2024
Y-Combinator
William Williams
Consumer Software
Pre-seed
2022
Lucas Cassiano, Claudio Ortega
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Zack Brown, Warfa Jibril
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2023
Bryson Jones, Guglielmo Daddi
B2B SaaS
Pre-seed
2024
Wenlong Ma, Wei Ding, Christopher McQuin, Wenda Wang
Robotics
Pre-seed
2024
Satish Polisetti, Dhawal Mujumdar
Consumer
Pre-seed
2024
Shishira Maiya, Abhinav Shrivastava
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.