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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Riley
Working with Ani Kunaparaju on tooling for GTM teams. Previously product @ Nuro.ai.
Charlie
Currently building Pulley to streamline construction permitting. Previously a founder, PM, and engineer at eero, Oasis Labs, and Amazon. Passionate about software, cities, and solving messy infrastructure problems.
Vishal
Vishal is the co-founder and former CTO of Leap, building products to address loneliness among older adults. Previously co-founded Screenhero (acquired by Slack), where he later led real-time communications as a Senior Engineering Manager.
Andrew
I'm a VC living in Hawaii. I work with founders investing in the things that make life worth living. My biggest hobbies are running (marathoner aiming to BQ) and surfing. Say hi!
Jason
Jason is the co-founder and CEO of Slab. He is also BDFL for the open source project Quill and formerly the founder of Stypi (sold to Salesforce). He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford.
Adam
Former Product Head at Palantir, multi-time CPO, and owner of First Principles, a product agency for emerging tech companies. Adam is the author and host of www.emergentproduct.com and is passionate about solving complex missions and AI-First products.
Augustine
RL PhD at UCL, working on LLMs and reasoning at vmax, prev: AI safety at Redwood research, NeuroAI at CSHL, AI for genomics at lllumina
Alexendar
I am CEO of Silico Therapeutics. My speciality is in software development for CRISPR target specificity. I hold a Ph.D in computer science. I hold an M.D.
Omar
Web3 FF3 exploring gaming - https://www.omarmezenner.com
Sanjay
I like playing basketball and poker. Talk to me about hiring contractors / consultants for your startup.

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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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