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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Benjamin
New founder after 8+ years at Stripe. Building Substrate: the best inference APIs for the top open-source AI models. Talk to us if you're interested in super fast SDXL infra or other use cases!
Mel
Building the AI copilot for medication prior authorization. Previously Product at Canvas Medical and Design at IDEO.
Bryan
After a PhD in AI/ML, cofounded a unique fintech—Angaza—to make solar energy and smartphones radically more affordable in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Helped millions of households connect to electricity and internet. Now focused on AI again.
Pranav
Business engineer. Previously worked in pre-seed, seed, series A engineering/adjacent roles. Interests in financial markets, fintech, and infrastructure.
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.
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.
Bryan
Acquired software founder, interested in neuromorphic/SNNs, ai agents, swarm robotics, and other big bets. I've worked mostly in B2B and sales/marketing tools, but want to switch out of that ASAP. https://bryanhoulton.com/
Aditya
Verticalized AI for property managers
Kunal
Gaurav
Gaurav Bhalotia, with 20+ years in large-scale distributed systems and machine learning, led engineering at udaan, Flipkart, Kosmix, and Retrevo. IIT Bombay grad with an MS from UC Berkeley, he advises startups and holds search and categorization patents.

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
Ben Brook, Mike Farrell
B2B SaaS
Series B
2018
Accel, Index Ventures, 01 Advisors
Mohak Nahta
Consumer
Series B
2020
Andreessen Horowitz, Peak XV, Elevation Capital
Alvaro Morales, Kshitij Grover
B2B SaaS
Series B
2021
Greylock, Menlo Ventures
Syam Palakurthy
Healthcare/Bio
Series B
2018
NextView, Haystack
Ian Lee, Will Papper
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Series B
2021
Andreessen Horowitz
Feross Aboukhadijeh
B2B SaaS
Series B
2020
Andreessen Horowitz
Colin Sidoti, Braden Sidoti
B2B SaaS
Series B
2019
Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona Ventures, CRV
Jonny Dyer, Paul Day, Dan McCleese, Pascal Stang, Reuben Rohrschneider
B2B SaaS
Series B
2020
Costanoa, Radical Ventures
Scott Wu, Vladimir Novakovski
Consumer
Series A
2018
Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue
Charlie Cheever
B2B SaaS
Series A
2015
Y-Combinator

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.