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.
Zorayr
I was one of the early engineers on Messenger and helped to grow it to billions of people; after Messenger, spent a few years as an Engineering Manager on various new products within Facebook including stories and teens pillars. I am an engineer with a PMs hat that loves to help people. Reach out if there is anything I can help with!
Leah
Leah was the engineering leader for Slack's Enterprise products, building out Grid and growing the team 10x. Prior to that she co-founded zumper.com and worked at Google as an engineer and analyst.
Sam
Building Sentience...
Catherine
Catherine is a member of technical staff at Anthropic. Prior to that she was a senior program associate at Open Philanthropy and a software engineer at Google Brain and OpenAI. Previously: computational neuroscience (left PhD program with a master's degree), computer science, and psychology + cognitive science (MIT)
Idan
Currently Co-founding Epoch with Akash Bhatia! Previously at Unity, adjunct at IGM @ RIT, CTO at Sandbox VR, co-founder of Dream Garage, incepted Hackster.io, and created the gTar.
Nolan
Currently exploring ideas around multimodal models and future of work. Prev: Engineering @ Complicore (Bootstrapped AI/ML credentialing platform). Consumer, DevEx, Web Infra @ Spotify.
Andres
Andres is the co-founder and CEO of Comun, building modern financial services for immigrant communities. Previously an investor at FJ Labs and held strategy leadership roles at Sigma Alimentos, where he led IPO planning and global category expansion.
Craig
Craig Stanton is a Partner focused on investor relations, based in Boston. Craig previously led capital formation for Sierra Ventures, Commerce Ventures, and Top Tier Capital Partners, and held business development roles at Freebird (acquired by Capital One) and Monitise (acquired by Fiserv). He holds a BA in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology from Connecticut College.
Vishal
Founder, Embedding.store • SPC Fellow • ML at Twitter, Microsoft • Singer, Songwriter

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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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