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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Kush
3x entrepreneur and executive leader with 15+ years of experience in SaaS, Hardware and consumer products. Last I was the CPO&VP Engineering @Noise(wearables) and ex- CTO&COO @SenRa(SaaS/IoT). Currently into outdoor (adventure) sports, guitar and AI.
Samvit
Samvit Majumdar is a former SaaS entrepreneur and software engineer currently exploring new ventures and enjoying Formula 1.
Ang
I am a startup founder in artificial intelligence, with a variety of research and product experiences on autonomous driving, videos, cameras, maps, advertisements, etc. My research aims at building lifelong autonomous agents. Previously, I worked at Google DeepMind, Baidu Apollo, Facebook AI Research, CMU Robotics, Apple, Google Streetview, and Comcast Labs DC. I received my Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland College Park. My PhD thesis is spatial perception from visual and linguisitc information.
Brian
Bryant
Building a game with generative AI at https://dreamford.xyz
Manish
Engineer, ex wall st and Obama Whitehouse. Interim CTO at Coop Commerce. Founder & CEO @ Metaball (NFT basketball game)
Pranav
Business engineer. Previously worked in pre-seed, seed, series A engineering/adjacent roles. Interests in financial markets, fintech, and infrastructure.
Ben
Founder and Engineer building the AI copilot for medication prior auth. Previously Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Rupa Health. British 🇬🇧 and an improv comedian 🤣
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.
AJ
2nd time founder / Former head of ML at an AI startup (Hirefly) Build AI for eCommerce brands

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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Sector
Stage
Founded
Investors
Pagentic
Brian Chu, Omar Marin Ceja Jr
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
Partly
Sanjay Saraf
General Software
Pre-seed
2024
CaseX
Daniel Tatenko, Arthur Longbottom, Trevin Miller
Consumer
Pre-seed
2024
Awaken
Andrew Duca
Cryptocurrency
Pre-seed
2022
Script Capital
Channel Labs
Archa Jain
General Software
Pre-seed
2024

What do SPC members get?

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    Exploration

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    Connection

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    Resources

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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.

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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
© 2022 All rights reserved.