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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Ramasadagopan
You can call me Ram. Built & led teams across Google, Apple & Meta. Expertise in Firmware, OS, Wireless, Android. Early stage engineering experience as well.
Pedro
Pedro is building in the music AI space. Before that, he was a research scientist in generative AI for 3D, did a PhD in cognitive AI at MIT, and was a jazz pianist and drummer.
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.
James
Arthur
Arthur is co-founder and CEO of Unitbase, where he is focused on rethinking real estate operations from first principles. He previously was an early hire on the product team at Flex, building out financial services for renters.
Arnaud
Arnaud is an expert in AI that worked at Google Research on language models and led search at Faire. He's exploring new ideas with his cofounder.
Mike
Michael graduated from Harvard College in 2017 with a master’s degree in CS, as well as a bachelor’s degree in CS and statistics. During college, he worked in the George Church Lab automating multiplexing technologies for cell culture experiments.
Lavanya
Exploring solving operationally complex problems with technology. Previously at Culdesac, as General Manager of the first car-free community built from scratch in the US. Passionate about transportation, health care, and real estate. Expertise in growth, ops, marketing, partnerships
Vaibhav
Co-founder at SurgeGrowth, developing a monetization co-pilot for subscription-based softwares. Formerly a Product Manager at Epic, the world's largest digital reading platform for kids.
Bryson
Bryson is a builder that is excited about creating software and AI systems that interact with the physical world.

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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Company
Founders
Sector
Stage
Founded
Investors
Column Tax
Gavin Nachbar, Michael Bock
FinTech
Series A
2021
Bain Capital Ventures, Felicis Ventures
Expo
Charlie Cheever
B2B SaaS
Series A
2015
Y-Combinator
Wonder
Justin Wohlstadter
B2B SaaS
Series A
2012
First Round Capital, boldstart ventures
Riffusion
Seth Forsgren, Hayk Martiros
Consumer
Series A
2023
Felicis Ventures, Spark Capital
Ascend
Andrew Wynn, Praveen Chekuri
FinTech
Series A
2021
First Round Capital, Susa Ventures, Index Ventures
SideChat
Sebastian Gil
Consumer
Series A
2019
Spark Capital
Gemfy
Anderson Ferminiano
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Series A
2021
Andreessen Horowitz
Sparrow
Deborah Hanus
Human Capital
Series A
2018
WndrCo, Authentic Ventures
Potrero Labs
Asad Awan, Hamza Aftab
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Series A
2022
Andreessen Horowitz
Durable
James Clift
B2B SaaS
Series A
2021
Spark Capital

What do SPC members get?

  1. 1.

    Exploration

  2. 2.

    Connection

  3. 3.

    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.