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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Aditya
Founder with an exit in energy space (Airprobe), led APAC biz and global solar @ Zeitview (drones and computer vision), cofounder @ susventures. Ideating to build venture scale climatetech biz with current focus on built environment(datacenters) and energy.
Joe
Joe (Jue) previously led growth projects at Snap focused on iOS, cross platform, and mobile performance. He holds MS and BS in computer science from UPenn and currently resides in NYC.
Sean
Sean Howell, was CEO of Hornet, where he built a 40M-user LGBTQIA+ social network, and co-founder of Buffalo Market. Sean applies lessons from consumer tech to SaaS, leveraging his global experience to create impactful, user-friendly solutions.
Kaiyuan
Exploring disaster and emergency response, let's chat! Worked in Insurance, let's chat!
Justin
Exploring the intersection of healthcare, bio and technology. Enjoys running on trails. Previously @color and @twitter eng
Monique
I’m interested in systems that move things (money, goods, energy, risk, data, people). Previously built payment infrastructure for trucking at AtoB and did economics research at McKinsey.
Dwight
Founder, Chairman of Board for Whisper.ai. We are a team of artificial intelligence, hearing care, hardware, and software experts coming together to solve the challenge of providing better hearing.
Pranav
Business engineer. Previously worked in pre-seed, seed, series A engineering/adjacent roles. Interests in financial markets, fintech, and infrastructure.
Nagasrikanth
Founder in Robotics & ML. Built Explorer AI, a large-scale mapping platform for autonomous vehicles (acquired by Standard Cognition). On a mission to bring robots 🤖 into everyday life. CMU alum & yoga teacher 🧘🏻‍♂️.
Michael
I'm a full-stack engineer based in SF currently building AI tools for executive coaches at Encore. I also dabble in 3D printing/ electronics. Previously at LiveRamp, Fin, TripAdvisor, Brown

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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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