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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Kevin
Formerly at Databricks (via an acquisition) building Vector Search to GA, one of its fastest-growing products by revenue. Was an early engineer at Eightfold.AI & led infrastructure as the company became a unicorn.
Benjamin
Exploring in education. Previously building Songbird Therapy, a tech-enabled autism platform across 3 states / mid 7 figures. Let's chat about AI in services, labor markets, automated outbound, growth, regulated markets, modern entrepreneurship, interns!
Apurv
Apurv Mehra is a Computer Engineer and Researcher. Past Microsoft Research and IIITD
Tremaine
Tre is the co-founder of Vori, an OS for the grocery industry. Previously, he was co-founder at Greo (YCS17), a video social network for meaningful conversations (Top 40 on app store). Previously design @ Google & Mozilla, and built a nationally recognized education non-profit.
Brian
Life-long early-stage, co-founding engineer focused on building teams and making useful products on systems that don't page.
Andrew
Software engineer, previously worked at Figma on the product and the engine, Berkeley CS. Interested in computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning.
Lucas
As a designer and engineer, I’ve led the development of products across industrial robotics, life sciences automation, an spatial computing. Focused on building human-spatial systems products for the built world.
Irfan-ali
Former Instagram Product Lead with experience launching 0-to-1 products that grow quickly and persist. Can help with anything from recipe developing GTM plans to strategies for sparking network effects and building marketplace businesses.
Alexandra
Alexandra is the founder of Rubber Ducky Labs (YC W23), building internal tools for recommender systems teams. Alexandra's been a founding member for two MLOps startups (Gantry and SigOpt), and prior to that she worked in fashion tech (Polyvore and Rent the Runway).
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 :)

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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