Celebrating 10 Years of
South Park Commons

SPC is a home for the most talented technologists and founders figuring out what's next. Over the last decade, our founders have turned the illegible into the inevitable.

From -1 to 10 Years

Paths THROUGH SPC

Residency

A home for people looking for wide-ranging exploration, learning, idea testing, and relationship-building. If you're actively exploring what to do next, we'd love to meet you.

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Fellowship

A structured, guided path through the -1 to 0 phase for anyone committed to starting a venture-scale company but still navigating ideation. Up to $1M investment, 1:1 partner mentorship, small cohorts, and no set deadlines or demo days.

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OUR COMPANIES

Luma Labs

Gamma

Goodfire

Baseten

Replit

Imbue

Render

Doppel

Profound

Unit 21

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Member Stories

Anurag
Amit
Waseem & Jeff
Abiel & Andres
Tom
Ashton
Trisha & Clarence
James & Dylan
Anurag Goel
Anurag

Turning side-projects into a company.

Employee #8 at Stripe, Anurag joined SPC and built apps around healthcare, deep learning, and real-time communication. Through building, he spotted an opportunity to radically simplify DevOps. Render was born and subsequently has become one of the fastest growing tools in the developer ecosystem, raising $250M+ to date.

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Render
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Amit Jain
Amit

Building the foundation for a multi-modal future.

Amit joined SPC after building camera tech at Apple, fascinated by turning photos into 3D models. He saw a bigger shift coming: AI is going multi-modal. That sparked Luma, where he's building models powering a new generation of AI-native creative work.

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Luma
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Waseem Daher & Jeff Arnold
Waseem & Jeff

Two founding members started the first SPC unicorn.

Both engineers from MIT, Waseem and Jeff co-founded two companies together that were successfully acquired before they helped found SPC as original members. This dynamic duo left SPC to start Pilot, the first company founded out of SPC to reach a unicorn ($1B+) valuation.

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Pilot
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Abiel Gutierrez & Andres Santos
Abiel & Andres

Banking built for those who’ve been left out.

Abiel and Andres grew up just 30 minutes apart in Mexico, but only met during the Fellowship, where they bonded over the frustration of navigating U.S. banking as immigrants. They started Comun, a neobank designed from the ground up for Latino immigrants.

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Comun
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Tom Brown
Tom

From consumer apps to AI research.

Serial entrepreneur and Grouper co-founder, Tom joined SPC to explore ideas for a new consumer startup. While at SPC, a peer ML learning group pulled him deeper. He graduated to join Google Brain and later OpenAI, leading the engineering team for GPT-3. He has since founded his own AI safety and research company, Anthropic.

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Ashton Eaton
Ashton

An Olympic gold medalist joined to figure out what’s next.

After winning back-to-back Olympic golds in the decathlon, Ashton joined SPC to find his next challenge. He dove into systems design, discovered a passion for engineering, and graduated to join Intel as a product engineer.

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Trisha Kothari & Clarence Chio
Trisha & Clarence

Two members teamed up to fight financial crime.

Trisha joined SPC after early engineering and PM roles at Affirm. Clarence came to explore new topics while writing an O'Reilly book on ML and Security. They met, discovered a shared interest in security and fintech, and started powerhouse anti-fraud platform Unit21.

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Unit21
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James Cadwallader & Dylan Babbs
James & Dylan

Helping brands navigate the shift to AI.

James and Dylan met at SPC NYC and bonded over a question: what happens when AI becomes the default interface to the internet? They joined the Founder Fellowship to build Profound, where they're creating tools to help brands track and influence how they show up across AI systems.

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Profound
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