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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K
Designer, Tinkerer and a Gamer. Currently building games during my sabbatical and exploring ideas to build a business around gaming,.
Nathan
Robotics/AI engineer who built open-source humanoid infra and simulator. Researched gradient-guided diffusion policies at REAL lab. Interested in scaling robotics infra & foundation models. Multidisciplinary science olympiad finalist (chem/bio/math/CS).
Thomas
Neurotech / BCI. Working with Anthony Kirilov and Nicole Dobreva :) Prev: co-founded Chai, quant trading/gambling, astro at Cambridge.
Sravanthi
Exploring web3 and the creator economy, and working on creative projects in writing and music. On sabbatical from Lyft, where I'm a Group Product Manager responsible for most of the rider app & experience. Previously stints in movie development and as a data scientist.
Chris
Previously co-founder of a fitness CV company that sold to Peloton. Currently exploring startup ideas in the generative AI space.
Yahia
Exploring ideas around ERPs and vertical SaaS. Previously SWE at Snowflake building AI products, PM at nxyz building blockchain data APIs, and management consultant at McKinsey.
Nikhil
Computer science engineer from Bangalore who has was early in Product at multiple unicorn supply-chain startups in India and the US (Zetwerk - India (manufacturing), Convoy (trucking) & Granular (farming) in the US), worked at Microsoft and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Harsha
Career in I-Banking and Fund Management. 3rd time founder. Enthusiastic gamer. Bangalorean.
Mike
Founded Skip (YC W18) now working on something new. Terrestrial and Internet Explorer.
Remi
Remi is currently a web3 founder fellow at SPC. Previously, Remi worked as a software engineer at Google and Microsoft, was the founding member of a Defi protocol (Parallel Finance - raised seed and Series A), and has a complementary background in product management and venture capital.

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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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