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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Manish
Engineer, ex wall st and Obama Whitehouse. Interim CTO at Coop Commerce. Founder & CEO @ Metaball (NFT basketball game)
Vishal
Wenda
AI + Robotics, Ex Apple, CMU
Veer
Veer is a CS major from MIT specializing in AI and distributed systems. He's currently building Inflight, a platform that democratizes access to expert feedback, enabling teams to build better products. Previously, Veer built Airchat for two years.
Cristian
founder @ Autograph host @ Rabbit Hole Research author @ TRACES 📍 SF Past: VC @ Cibersons, AI Engineer @ Google, Symbolic Systems @ Stanford
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
Jiachen
I pioneer the creation of autonomous agents for the long-term needs of diverse real-world applications. Ex-DeepMind, LLNL, Electronic Arts. PhD in Machine learning at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Cinjon
I have a PhD in machine learning focusing on vision. I also have a deep understanding and experience in crypto. And I run a circus studio in Dumbo. Go to cinjon.com for writings.
Saul
I grew up in Israel and studied math at the technion. I worked as an ML engineer / EM at a few startups. I like to work on technical problems that involve optimization / planning in an uncertain environment. I have 22 roommates. In my free time, I practice bjj, write short stories and surf.
Luke
Researcher in persuasion & AI. PhD@MIT; Postdoc@Stanford; Co-founder Rhetorical Labs. I develop computational and experimental tools for discovering what changes people’s attitudes. I know about: RCTs, LLMs, expert forecasts and Bayesian models, advocacy.

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
Anderson Ferminiano
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Series A
2021
Andreessen Horowitz
Ishan Mukherjee
B2B SaaS
Series A
2024
Sequoia, General Catalyst
Asad Awan, Hamza Aftab
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Series A
2022
Andreessen Horowitz
James Clift
B2B SaaS
Series A
2021
Spark Capital
Anna Veronika Dorogush
Consumer
Series A
2024
Khosla Ventures, Nat Friedman
Dilan Dane, Yuran Lu, Michael Poon
Consumer
Series A
2018
Gloria Lin
B2B SaaS
Series A
2019
Menlo Ventures, First Round Capital
Deborah Hanus
Human Capital
Series A
2018
WndrCo, Authentic Ventures
Justin Wohlstadter
B2B SaaS
Series A
2012
First Round Capital, boldstart ventures
Kevin Tian, Rahul Madduluri
B2B SaaS
Series A
2022
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.