Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

South Park Commons is a community of technologists ideating and validating what to build next. We believe this shouldn’t be done alone. Our members range from exited founders and highly-cited researchers to new graduates and first-time entrepreneurs. What unites us is ambition, ability, and a mutual commitment to helping each other navigate -1 to 0.

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OUR Members

A Modern Day Xerox PARC


We focus on highly technical builders in the -1 to 0. Over the last decade, we have had 1,000 members join us to start companies, pursue research, and work on other ambitious projects.

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Nathan
Co-founder @ Post Perception, improving our ability to measure and manage the physical world. Previously: Software @ Humane, Meta, NVIDIA, Eyefluence (acq. Google). Background in cameras and embedded systems. Proud parent of a Lego-obsessed toddler.
Jarret
Building something fun and funky to disrupt a super stale market. Previously held senior roles at companies big and small, including mktg, product, operations, biz strat/analytics, partnerships, and customer success.
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.
Jacinda
Jacinda is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Apero Health, building tools to streamline medical billing and infrastructure. Previously CTO and founding engineer at Doctor On Demand, where she scaled telehealth platforms from the ground up.
Emad
Tech founder and CTO
Kalvin
I’m a software engineer interesting in applying SV’s optimism and maker mindset to an especially challenging question: can we build software that helps people feel like they have enough and are enough, instead of amplifying and exploiting our fears of never enough?
Arnaud
Arnaud is an expert in AI that worked at Google Research on language models and led search at Faire. He's exploring new ideas with his cofounder.
Daniel
I'm Daniel, building SaaS for field worker employers. Previously, I worked early product & engineering roles at TikTok, Ramp, and Shop Cider. On the side, I'm a history buff and photographer :)
Benjamin
I spent the last 8 years at Stripe, where I was the founding engineer on Stripe Terminal, drove the acquisition of Index, and post-launch led integration experience and global expansion for the Terminal product. I've run teams large (50) and small, led mobile strategy across Stripe with @shreyas as my mentor, and spent the last 2 years working on Stripe Connect. I'm so excited to be building something new with Rob Cheung, who I met at Venmo.
Veer
Veer is a CS major from MIT specializing in AI and distributed systems. He's currently building Inflight, a platform that democratizes access to expert feedback, enabling teams to build better products. Previously, Veer built Airchat for two years.

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Our members have started 250+ companies, including several unicorns. Others have become core contributors to leading research organizations, open-source software projects, and academic institutions.

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