South Park Commons
Venture capitalActively deployingSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Seed · 11 people tracked
Also known as South Park Commons 20211 · South Park Commons India · SOUTH PARK COMMONS MANAGEMENT, LLC · South Park Commons Seed
Investment thesis
South Park Commons focuses on the earliest phase of company creation, which it calls going from '-1 to 0': the pre-idea to pre-launch exploration before a startup exists. It offers a six-month, no-cost, no-equity residency that gathers technical founders, researchers, and domain experts into a talent-dense community to test ideas, find collaborators, and reach conviction. For members ready to build venture-scale companies, SPC provides first-check funding of $1M to $10M. The community runs multi-week learning forums on frontier topics such as embodied AI, reinforcement learning, and AI in biotech, plus workshops and events, and offers startup credits and perks.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 11 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 33 of 52 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×19Enterprise Software ×18SaaS ×11Developer Tools ×10Fintech ×10Cloud Computing ×5Data & Infrastructure ×4Crypto & Web3 ×3
HQs:United States×15India×2
Investments · 52 tracked
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Meesho operates an online marketplace that connects small businesses and individual entrepreneurs with customers across India, offering logistics, payments, and support services to help sellers manage their operations.
E-commerceEnterprise SoftwareBengaluru, IN
Vidit Aatrey(Founder/CEO)inSanjeev Barnwal(Founder/CTO)inSanjeev Kumar(Executive Officer, Director)Sumer Juneja(Director)Mohit Bhatnagar(Director)Ashutosh Sharma(Director)
Moai.cash is a Telegram-based super app built by Sloika Industries that provides non-custodial, zero-fee digital finance and Web3 services through Telegram's interface.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCrypto & Web3Fintech
Baseten provides AI inference and infrastructure services that optimize model deployment, serving, and orchestration across the full stack.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Tuhin Srivastava(CEO and Co-Founder)inAmir Haghighat(CTO and Co-Founder)inPhil Howes(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)inPankaj Gupta(Co-Founder)in
Cognition develops Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer agent that plans, writes, tests, and deploys production code within existing development environments to augment human engineering teams.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Scott Wu(Founder)Walden Yan(Founder)Steven Hao(Founder)in
Column Tax provides tax services with a focus on transparency and ethical practices, serving individuals and businesses seeking honest alternatives to predatory tax industry practices.
FintechSaaS
Dashworks builds an AI system designed to answer questions across an organization's internal knowledge and work context.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Prasad Kawthekar(Founder)inPraty Sharma(Founder)inAshish Toshniwal(Director)Pratyaksh Sharma(Director)
Develop Health automates prior authorization and benefit verification for healthcare providers across EHRs and payers, while providing access intelligence to pharmaceutical manufacturers.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMenlo Park, US
Mel van Londen(Co-Founder & CEO)Ben Easton(Co-Founder & CTO)
BoardSara Choi(Director)
Doppel is an AI-native platform that protects organizations from social engineering attacks, AI-powered impersonation, phishing, and fraud through threat detection, infrastructure disruption, and employee security awareness training.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareCovina, US
Bobby Ford(Chief Security Officer)Zane Lackey(Director)Kevin Tian(Executive Officer, Director)Elliott Robinson(Director)Rahul Madduluri(Executive Officer, Director)
AI-powered software that reimagines presentations.
Goodfire is a research company developing interpretability tools to understand and design AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Deedy Das(Director)Nnamdi Iregbulem(Director)Daniel Kang(Director)Tom McGrath(Director)Daniel Balsam(Director)Eric Ho(Executive Officer, Director)
Lighter is a zero-knowledge rollup built on Ethereum that enables high-speed, low-cost onchain trading through cryptographic proofs of order matching and liquidations.
Crypto & Web3FintechCambridge, US
Vladimir Novakovski(Founder & CEO)Susan E Vitka(Director)Alexis Fox(Executive Officer, Director)Lisa Feria(Director)Micah Risk(Executive Officer)Ronald Pastore(Executive Officer, Director)
Luma Labs builds AI agents that generate, understand, and operate in the physical world, enabling creative teams to rapidly produce video, image, audio, and text content with unified general intelligence driving creative workflows.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentPalo Alto, US
David Beyer(Director)Amit Jain(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Sixian Yu(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Moneyview is a personal finance and lending platform offering loans, savings, insurance, expense tracking, and payment services to consumers in India.
ConsumerFintechIndia, IN
Puneet Agarwal(Co-founder)Sanjay Aggarwal(Co-founder)
Muon Space designs, builds, and operates satellite constellations using its proprietary Halo technology stack, which integrates spacecraft platforms, payload integration, and software-defined orchestration to deliver data and enable real-time computation in space.
Deep TechHardwareSpace TechSilicon Valley, US
Jonny Dyer(Founder & CEO)Paul Day(Executive Officer, Director)Daniel McCleese(Executive Officer, Director)John Cowgill(Director)Rob Toews(Director)
Nuance creates software products, including healthcare solutions for clinical documentation, speech recognition, and virtual assistants.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechSaaS
Pilot provides bookkeeping and accounting services, modernizing financial operations for small businesses and startups.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechHR TechSaaS
PlanetScale is a database platform built on the Vitess open-source project, designed for scaling large distributed systems.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Render provides cloud infrastructure and hosting services for software teams to deploy applications at any scale, from prototypes to large distributed systems, with a focus on reliability and uptime.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Anurag Goel(Founder & CEO)
Replit is a platform for software development that aims to make app creation accessible to non-programmers through intuitive tools and AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsEdTechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Haya Abdalla(Founder)inAmjad Masad(Founder)inHaya Odeh(Co-Founder, Design)Luis Héctor Chávez(CTO)
Profound is a marketing platform that tracks and optimizes how brands appear in AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity, offering analytics on AI visibility, source citations, and brand sentiment.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Vori operates a B2B operating system that connects data across the food supply chain for the grocery industry.
B2B MarketplacesEnterprise SoftwareFoodTechRetail TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Brandon Hill(Founder)inTre Kirkman(Founder)inRobert Pinkerton(Founder)inMax Mullen(Co-Founder)Prince Arora(Head of Product)
BoardEugene Wei(Product Wizard)
Zingage provides coordination infrastructure for home healthcare agencies to automate scheduling, handle real-time call-outs and emergencies, and improve care delivery for families.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSaaS
Victor Hunt(Co-Founder)Daniel Tian(Co-Founder)
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does South Park Commons invest at?
- South Park Commons invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is South Park Commons's typical check size?
- South Park Commons typically writes checks of $1M – $10M.
- What sectors does South Park Commons focus on?
- South Park Commons focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Deep Tech, Energy, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is South Park Commons located?
- South Park Commons is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does South Park Commons lead rounds?
- Yes, South Park Commons leads investment rounds.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamThe Anti-Incubator: How South Park Commons Rethinks Startup Life with Aditya Agarwal
Off Topic / オフトピック · Aditya Agarwal
Investing in people not in Ideas, -1 to 0, potential of India, Aditya Agarwal, South Park Commons
1947 Rise with Shiva Singh Sangwan · Aditya Agarwal
Anthropic Engineer on the Future of Coding with AI | Thariq Shihipar
South Park Commons
Prototype to Production: The Truth About Scaling Robotics Startups
South Park Commons
The Next SpaceX is a Giant Space Cannon
South Park Commons
The Future of Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces | AXION Founders at South Park Commons
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