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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Praveen
Praveen Chekuri is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Ascend, the first modern insurance payments platform that provides automated payments, financing, & payment operations. Previously he's worked at Hippo, Houseparty & Instacart.
Vinay
Building something new in Web3. Previously startup founder, Product @ Facebook. Manchester United fan and Pizzaterian for life.
Ashu
Ashu is a product guy with a technical bent. Earlier, he started a wellness startup called 12 labs before joining LinkedIn as a growth product manager. While tinkering on the sides, he found his way into Web3. Currently, working on Helix3 - trying to make the life easier for Solana developers
James
Founder exploring new ideas in un-sexy spaces.
Arjun
Worked as a software engineer on the platform and tools team at Facebook. Zillow and Microsoft before that. Explored angel investing + engineering at startups including Detour, Thistle, Dandelion Chocolate, Taika and others.
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.
Sudhakar
An Eng and Product leader with deep expertise in ecommerce domain. Founding Member of Mensa Brands (fastest unicorn of India). Previous to that, have led almost all large ecommerce product verticals across Flipkart/Myntra (Biggest ecom platform of India).
Dylan
Software engineer with 8 years of experience at early stage startups (consumer/edtech/marketplace/saas/AI), part-time college counselor, Reforge enthusiast, passionate about product-led growth, personal health + wellness
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.
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.

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
Charlie Jacobson, Andreas Rotenberg
B2B SaaS
Series A
2021
Susa Ventures, BoxGroup, CRV
Justin Wohlstadter
B2B SaaS
Series A
2012
First Round Capital, boldstart ventures
Anna Veronika Dorogush
Consumer
Series A
2024
Khosla Ventures, Nat Friedman
Apoorva Mehta
Healthcare/Bio
Series A
2024
Anderson Ferminiano
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Series A
2021
Andreessen Horowitz
Scott Wu, Vladimir Novakovski
Consumer
Series A
2018
Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue
Gloria Lin
B2B SaaS
Series A
2019
Menlo Ventures, First Round Capital
Andrew Wynn, Praveen Chekuri
FinTech
Series A
2021
First Round Capital, Susa Ventures, Index Ventures
Seth Forsgren, Hayk Martiros
Consumer
Series A
2023
Felicis Ventures, Spark Capital
Grant Lee, James Fox, Jon Noronha
B2B SaaS
Series A
2020
Accel

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.