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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Vaibhav
Co-founder at SurgeGrowth, developing a monetization co-pilot for subscription-based softwares. Formerly a Product Manager at Epic, the world's largest digital reading platform for kids.
Danilo
Founder at AppliedMind, building the foundation model for physical tasks. Past life at Medivis, building the operating system of surgery, PhD in CS (UC San Diego) focused on AR + HCI. Passionate about fast, product-driven innovation.
Grey
Founder Fellow 2. Currently building Starlight, the financial OS for web3 teams 💫
Gavin
Co-founder and CEO of Column Tax, building modern tax infrastructure for the digital era. Previously led strategy and operations at Waymo.
Charles
Charles Bai is a healthcare entrepreneur with experience across provider, intermediary, broker, and payor levels. He is focused on identifying critical inefficiencies in the US healthcare system to drive transformative improvements in health outcomes.
Chris
Christopher Kim is a healthcare entrepreneur with experience across provider, intermediary, broker, and payor levels. He is dedicated to identifying systemic inefficiencies and implementing transformative solutions to improve health outcomes.
Leah
Working on AI for content evaluation. [email protected]
Ben
Founder and Engineer building the AI copilot for medication prior auth. Previously Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Rupa Health. British 🇬🇧 and an improv comedian 🤣
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.
Rob
into film, computation, writing, social systems. previously founding engineer at substack, founding engineer at fin.com, early team / technical lead at venmo

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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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