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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Rui
Engineer and Researcher. Cofounder/CTO of Expedock - Forbes Under 30. Working on something new.
Satish
ex-CEO @Polymorph (acquired by @Walmart ) • MS @Berkeley • Double majors in Electrical & Mechanical Engg • 30 Under30 award from India's #1 private university.
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.
Ross
I’m currently exploring human-in-the-loop AI systems at ROSNIK AI with my longtime friend Nick DiRienzo. In my prior life, I was Head of Product at Observe Inc and a PM at Splunk. In my spare time, you will find me brewing beer, riding my bike, and reading any sci-fi I can get my hands on.
Joe
Joe is building the co-pilot for in-app monetization. Previously, he led product at Epic!, world's #1 reading app for kids. He was the first employee at Toppr.com and led product from inception to acquisition.
Vish
Software engineer, full-stack & ML. Launched & scaled an enterprise MLOps product @ Weights & Biases. Built WhyBot, an educational AI app that won the AngelList Agents hackathon. Trained breast cancer mammogram models for the NYU Hospital. NYU & Duke alum.
Santiago
Santi is the CEO and co-founder at Momentum.io. He was previously co-founder and CTO at Blameless, CTO of Whyline, first employee and Director of Engineering at Sauce Labs, Staff engineer at Mulesoft. He cares about entrepreneurship, great company culture, building delightful products, and accomplishing great goals.
Alex
Currently exploring new areas. Formerly first PM and first of many other roles at Cresta going from 0 -> unicorn and prior to Cresta, PM @ Google on Photos, Lens, and Search.
Corbin
Corbin Klett is an aerospace engineering PhD from Georgia Tech, where he applied cutting-edge control theory research to robotic systems. He is currently designing UAVs and building AI-powered engineering tools for aerospace and robotics engineers.
Cristian
founder @ Autograph host @ Rabbit Hole Research author @ TRACES 📍 SF Past: VC @ Cibersons, AI Engineer @ Google, Symbolic Systems @ Stanford

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
Scott Wu, Vladimir Novakovski
Consumer
Series A
2018
Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue
Brandon Li, Bask Gill
Healthcare/Bio
Series A
2021
CRV, Footwork VC
Asad Awan, Hamza Aftab
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Series A
2022
Andreessen Horowitz
Brandon Hill, Rob Pinkerton, Tremaine Kirkman
B2B SaaS
Series A
2019
Greylock, Factory
Justin Wohlstadter
B2B SaaS
Series A
2012
First Round Capital, boldstart ventures
Apoorva Mehta
Healthcare/Bio
Series A
2024
Anna Veronika Dorogush
Consumer
Series A
2024
Khosla Ventures, Nat Friedman
Andrew Wynn, Praveen Chekuri
FinTech
Series A
2021
First Round Capital, Susa Ventures, Index Ventures
Andres Santos, Abiel Gutierrez
FinTech
Series A
2021
Costanoa, Redpoint
Deborah Hanus
Human Capital
Series A
2018
WndrCo, Authentic Ventures

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.