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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Scott
Former finance leader and management consultant, exploring ideas as an affiliated co-founder.
James
James is a co-founder of Gamma, building a new format for modern business storytelling. Previously spent nearly eight years at Optimizely as a senior engineering leader.
Meia
Obsessed with fixing our food systems and ecosystems. Prev: cofounder/cto @ feanix (yc s23, biotech x cattle), ml eng @ google[x] in ag-tech, cs @ mit. Now: USDA organic inspector exploring in sustainable ag + helping startups.
Nicholas
Part of the Founder Fellowship: excited to build something new with SPC!
Damon
Software engineer & technical leader in Games. I've worked in the industry for 15 years at studios ranging from my own startup to AAA. If you're interested in the games space hit me up.
Grey
Founder Fellow 2. Currently building Starlight, the financial OS for web3 teams 💫
Vijit
13+ years in software industry, led various R&D teams in Alexa AI for the past 6+ years. recently relocated back from the US to Bangalore to build something of my own. currently exploring what the next generation of AI-driven interactive entertainment might look like.
Abishek
Abhishek is the co-founder and CEO of Material Security, where he previously served as CTO. Before that, he was an early product leader at Dropbox.
Jennifer
Founder. Previously MoTS @ Anthropic, Stripe. Expertise in LLM infra.
Yash
Drummer, cryptomaniac, and big fan of doggos. Building in web3 with andrew duca. Ex-robinhood, ex-cto of duffl (yc w20), kleiner perkins fellow '21

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What our members do


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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