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.

See More
Jacob
Hey 👋, I’m Jacob. I’m working at on the next generation of radio powered by Gen AI.
Yurong
Marketer turned Marketing technologist: Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble -> Master in Data Science and Computer Science -> Data Scientist at a MarTech vendor Neustar and founding Marketing Data Scientist at Asana. Now building my startup fulltime.
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 🤣
Daniel
Remi
Remi is currently a web3 founder fellow at SPC. Previously, Remi worked as a software engineer at Google and Microsoft, was the founding member of a Defi protocol (Parallel Finance - raised seed and Series A), and has a complementary background in product management and venture capital.
Kara
Kara works with sports entities to build strategy tied to commercial development and athlete marketing. She is currently a Senior Advisor to Riot Games, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team, and Division Street, Nike Founder Phil Knight’s new athlete marketing startup. She is also the co-author of Pure Grit: Stories of Remarkable People Living with Physical Disability.
Akash
Geeked over hardware, software and data @ Exponent & Ather. Growth @ Udaan.
Aren
Founder of Auratera - enabling providers and patients to send and receive health data. Former Tesla data engineer. Alum of the University of Pennsylvania’s engineering school, law school, and artificial intelligence program. Based in the Bay Area.
Saumya
Currently hacking on projects at the intersection of education x AI. Previously Product at Synthesis, Growth at ClassDojo, and 7 years at Google in a variety of roles (Product Manager on Google Classroom, Google Maps, Software Engineer in Area 120 & AdMob)
Vishal

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
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
SPC Company Founders Sector Stage Founded Investors
See More
Company
Founders
Sector
Stage
Founded
Investors
Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2013
Coatue, Thrive Capital, Benchmark
Ashutosh Garg, Varun Kacholia
Human Capital
Unicorn
2016
Foundation Capital, Lightspeed
Jeff Arnold, Waseem Daher, Jessica McKellar
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2016
Sequoia, Index Ventures, SV Angel
Tuhin Srivastava, Amir Haghighat, Phil Howes
B2B SaaS
Growth
2019
Greylock, IVP, Spark Capital
Anurag Goel
B2B SaaS
Growth
2018
General Catalyst, Addition, Bessemer
Puneet Agarwal, Sanjay Aggarwal
FinTech
Growth
2014
Accel, Ribbit Capital
Trisha Kothari, Clarence Chio
B2B SaaS
Growth
2018
Gradient Ventures, Tiger Global, A Capital
Deon Nicholas, Sami Ghoche
B2B SaaS
Growth
2018
NEA
Jitendra Vaidya, Sugu Sougoumarane
B2B SaaS
Growth
2018
Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins
Amit Jain, Alex Yu
B2B SaaS
Growth
2021
Amplify Partners, General Catalyst, Matrix Partners, Andreessen Horowitz

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.