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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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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Nishant
Co-founded Color (color.com), left in early 2020. Currently investing in companies at the intersection of biology + engineering.
Ying
After spending 12 years as a public market investor at hedge funds, I am now building AI assistant for institutional investors.
Marci
(aka "Marci") Was an Instructor on Udemy for topics on Python, ML, and AI. Now exploring GenAI for a new company for children's media.
Trisha
Trisha is the co-founder and CEO of Unit21. She was previously an early engineer at Affirm, and subsequently PM. She studied Computer Science at Penn. She loves to paint.
Ashton
2x Olympic gold medalist in decathlon from London 2012 and Rio 2016. Studying mechanical engineering to work on energy or space. Education and human performance important too.
Connor
Connor is the CEO, co-founder of Speak, an AI Speaking App that teaches users English. Prior to that, Connor created Flashcards+ which is an education app used by over 5 million students worldwide and eventually sold it to Chegg.
Dylan
Design Engineer in NYC. Background in product design, maps, and data viz. Formerly at Uber working on maps + location services. Hobbies: surfing, flying planes, exploring, and working out. Reach out, let's collaborate and build something together.
Justin
Justin most recently led Growth at Rockset, and worked on Google's Cloud Security team prior. He was also the Founder/CEO of Xenia Gifts. Justin graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration.
Yi
Yi is an assistant professor of statistics at UChicago. His research is in probability and applications to machine learning and high dimensional statistics.
Arman
Passionate about building a company that has significant social and economic impact. Right now I'm actively exploring the implications of a world where AI-generated content dominate the web and what it would look like the authenticate human artifacts (namely text).

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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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