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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Jennifer
Founder. Previously MoTS @ Anthropic, Stripe. Expertise in LLM infra.
Yuguang
A serial entrepreneur in robotics building diverse innovations with top 5% teams for 10+ years
Andrew
I grew up in San Diego and studied CS at Brown. I dropped out to be an early engineer at Snackpass (YC, a16z, Craft) and built out our marketplace infra that scaled from $100k's a year to $120M+ today. I am passionate about DeFi and creating globally inclusive financial products.
Charlie
Founder, artist, & product leader building something new 🐣 Wrote distraction-blocker app SelfControl, started an ed-tech company, sold to Workday, worked on new product strategy there for 5 years Last 2 years: building big steel fire-shooting sculptures 🔥
Grace
Data infrastructure + developer tooling at Palantir. Explored devtools + dating while at SPC. Have now found my way to crypto :)
Wei
Robotics decision making and software architect. Ex Apple SPG, currently building general purpose humanoid robots.
Ritesh
Born in India, spent the last 10 years building a fintech in London and now building in Compliance x AI. I am almost always up for a run and I can't do spice in my food (that's one way to say I have been converted from Indian to Brit)
Neehar
Professional Dilettantemaxxer. Formerly CTO@Insider.in, SVP@Paytm. Ran product and engg for a 100mn MAU app, built novel ticketing tech behind most of India's sports industry, one time open source JS junkie and most importantly, a failed drummer.
Justin
Exploring the intersection of healthcare, bio and technology. Enjoys running on trails. Previously @color and @twitter eng
Jinjing
AI entrepreneur and ex-Google DeepMind tech lead, passionate about building AI agents that tackle real-world problems—automating the tedious, unlocking the impossible.

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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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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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