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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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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Abhishek
Cofounder @Riverline. Multiple failed ventures, started selling software at 19. Passionate about building sustainable businesses. Enjoy crashing drones in my downtime, now focused on growing B2B SaaS
Jayanth
Co-Founder, CTO @ Riverline
Ashu
Ashu is a product guy with a technical bent. Earlier, he started a wellness startup called 12 labs before joining LinkedIn as a growth product manager. While tinkering on the sides, he found his way into Web3. Currently, working on Helix3 - trying to make the life easier for Solana developers
Rhys
Building something to help farmers and ranchers implement regenerative agriculture. Former synbio PhD, founder, hedge fund associate, and eng leader
Grant
Grant is the co-founder and CEO of Gamma, building a new medium for modern business communication. Previously COO at ClearBrain (acquired by Amplitude) and Head of Strategic Finance at Optimizely.
Avery
Co-founder @symphoniclabs, UWaterloo Eng 24 prev @tesla, Building neural interafaces for silent speech
Wenlong
Built controllers for various types of humanoid robots
Joe
Joe is building the co-pilot for in-app monetization. Previously, he led product at Epic!, world's #1 reading app for kids. He was the first employee at Toppr.com and led product from inception to acquisition.
Marcel
Marcel is the founder of Apache Impala, which he started when he joined Cloudera in 2011 and for which he was the architect/TL until 2017. Before Cloudera, he worked on database technology at Google and several startups. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
Tom
ex-DeepMind researcher interested in interpretability, data curation & foundation models (especially in new domains)

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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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