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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Ciro
Founder. Went from bootstrap to acquisition to IPO in 5 years. Really into startups, ML, NLP, Data and strange music.
Joe
Joe is the Co-CEO and co-founder of Titan, building the first AI-native investment platform for everyday investors. Previously worked in strategy at McKinsey and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. A Wharton and Huntsman Program graduate, he blends deep financial expertise with a product-driven vision for modern wealth management
Noah
Noah is an applied AI lead at OpenAI, focused on turning frontier models into real-world impact. Previously co-founded Eureka and led product at Forward after starting out as a software engineer. Former South Park Commons fellow.
Gustav
Data Scientist going into climate. Swede in California.
Bryson
Bryson is a builder that is excited about creating software and AI systems that interact with the physical world.
Shreepoorna
Founder of Arctus Aerospace, IIT Madras alumnus with extensive experience in drone R&D and defense tech. Led multiple UAV projects at IIT Madras; now developing high-altitude, long-endurance combat UAVs for defense applications. Based in Bangalore.
Aaron
Aaron co-founded Matrix Operations, a high-frequency trading firm operating in NYC and London. He designed the software infrastructure and am responsible for realtime performance of the trading systems.
Rui
Engineer and Researcher. Cofounder/CTO of Expedock - Forbes Under 30. Working on something new.
Georgi
Founder of TAPP Security | Math + Stats @ Harvard | Prod, SPC & Z-Fellow
Sumit
EE and CS @ Stanford. Previously CEO/cofounder of Glowstick, an AI-based 3D and animation suite. Before that I was the first AI hire @ All turtles (raised 100m+ for a zoom competitor), and was a search engineer @ laserlike (acq'd by Apple in 2019).

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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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