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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Jon
Founder working in consumer IRL social and AI. Ex-Stack Overflow and love all things community building.
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.
Ani
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.
Andrea
Highly curious BME and self taught Dev.
Arthur
Hello, I am Art. I am a US Navy veteran and self-taught developer. I live in San Diego with my wife and two kids. I am passionate about serving my community and solutioneering using technology. I like video games, space opera books, AI and cats.
Chandramauli
Exploring my next project! 
Was cofounder/CTO at Memer which exited to Sharechat. At Sharechat, created Moj and then lead PM vertical for Sharechat app.
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.
Jon
Former co-founder & CTO in multiple saas companies that lie at the intersection of analytics, market research, cpg brands, and data. Love solving main street problems with strong tech. Skier, data junkie, UT alum 🤘, born in Colorado, home is SF.
Arjun
Worked as a software engineer on the platform and tools team at Facebook. Zillow and Microsoft before that. Explored angel investing + engineering at startups including Detour, Thistle, Dandelion Chocolate, Taika and others.

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
Ashutosh Garg, Varun Kacholia
Human Capital
Unicorn
2016
Foundation Capital, Lightspeed
Amjad Masad, Haya Abdalla
Consumer
Unicorn
2016
Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue
Mukesh Bansal, Ankit Nagori
Consumer
Unicorn
2016
Temasek, Zomato, Accel
Puneet Agarwal, Sanjay Aggarwal
FinTech
Growth
2014
Accel, Ribbit Capital
Jitendra Vaidya, Sugu Sougoumarane
B2B SaaS
Growth
2018
Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins
Anurag Goel
B2B SaaS
Growth
2018
General Catalyst, Addition, Bessemer
Trisha Kothari, Clarence Chio
B2B SaaS
Growth
2018
Gradient Ventures, Tiger Global, A Capital
Amit Jain, Alex Yu
B2B SaaS
Growth
2021
Amplify Partners, General Catalyst, Matrix Partners, Andreessen Horowitz
Tuhin Srivastava, Amir Haghighat, Phil Howes
B2B SaaS
Growth
2019
Greylock, IVP, Spark Capital
Deon Nicholas, Sami Ghoche
B2B SaaS
Growth
2018
NEA

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.