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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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.
Rhys
Building something to help farmers and ranchers implement regenerative agriculture. Former synbio PhD, founder, hedge fund associate, and eng leader
Daniel
Brian
Life-long early-stage, co-founding engineer focused on building teams and making useful products on systems that don't page.
Denizalp
Deni is a computer science Ph.D. candidate working at Brown University in the intersection of economics and AI. He has spent time as a visiting researcher at Google DeepMind, JP Morgan, and UC Berkeley's Simons Institute. He holds a BA from Columbia University.
Michelle
Exploring mass electrification and ways to build critical power grid infrastructure.
Vinayak
I am a scientist by training so I like to ask lot of questions and I am a fan from first principles thinking. I loved programming since I was 5 and have built algorithms and systems working collaboratively with biologist, chemist, scientists and automation engineers to reliably scale measurement of biological systems (mostly human DNA) and predicting propensity for disease. Outside work, I love the outdoors and playing and following team sports.
Byron
I previously founded companies in EdTech and Ecommerce. Though I’ve been CTO for a while, my primary skills are in product, technical strategy, managing developers, and general strategy. Seeking co-founder(s) make a truly impactful product, probably leveraging Web3.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey wrangles probabilistic ML models for a living at places like Extropic and Meta. When he's not struggling with geometry, he's usually chasing some rabbithole in food chemistry, musicology, or turn-based strategy games.
Noah

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
Robert Leshner
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Unicorn
2018
Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures
Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2013
Coatue, Thrive Capital, Benchmark
Scott Wu, Steven Hao, Walden Yan
General Software
Unicorn
2024
Founders Fund
Mukesh Bansal, Ankit Nagori
Consumer
Unicorn
2016
Temasek, Zomato, Accel
Ashutosh Garg, Varun Kacholia
Human Capital
Unicorn
2016
Foundation Capital, Lightspeed
Kanjun Qiu, Josh Albrecht
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2021
Astera Institute
Joe Percoco, Clayton Gardner, Max Bernardy
FinTech
Unicorn
2018
General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz
Abhishek Agarwal, Chris Park, Ryan Noon
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2017
Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund
Yaniv Tal, Brandon Ramirez, Jannis Pohlman
Blockchain/Cryptocurrency
Unicorn
2018
Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures, Tiger Global
Jeff Arnold, Waseem Daher, Jessica McKellar
B2B SaaS
Unicorn
2016
Sequoia, Index Ventures, SV Angel

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.