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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Jackie
After my PhD in ML for materials science at MIT, I joined Lila Sciences as the first employee, building its scientific intelligence codebase and helping lay the foundation for a 100+ person company. Now I'm excited to develop new AI for materials science—or something entirely new!
Yuguang
A serial entrepreneur in robotics building diverse innovations with top 5% teams for 10+ years
Gustav
Data Scientist going into climate. Swede in California.
Amit
Co-founder of Luma AI, building cutting-edge tools at the intersection of computer vision and 3D content. Previously led camera and systems engineering at Apple.
Kevin
Studied CS @ UWaterloo, learned to be a SWE. Spent past 5 years as a PM. Marketplace PM @ Lime (scooters, Series A -> D), then founding PM @ Kikoff (fintech, Seed -> Series B). Working to make the world more abundant with tools that give humans leverage.
Maksim
Curious about healthcare, biotech, and prop-tech. Ex engineering manager & mobile engineer at Instacart. Volunteer at NovaUkraine.org
Abishek
Abhishek is the co-founder and CEO of Material Security, where he previously served as CTO. Before that, he was an early product leader at Dropbox.
Sumit
EE and CS @ Stanford. Previously CEO/cofounder of Glowstick, an AI-based 3D and animation suite. Before that I was the first AI hire @ All turtles (raised 100m+ for a zoom competitor), and was a search engineer @ laserlike (acq'd by Apple in 2019).
Vinay
Building something new in Web3. Previously startup founder, Product @ Facebook. Manchester United fan and Pizzaterian for life.
Vartika
Keen interest and experience in scaling technology enabled businesses with global impact that fundamentally change human experiences. Strong suit: 0 to 1, new business or geography launch, scale up journeys. + built two ventures - B2C community commerce platform and a B2B Global product exited to a global SaaS co. + launched and scaled business verticals at Uber Eats and OYO + built solar projects in Asia and Africa as first Indian employee of global leader Stanford GSB and IIT Bombay grad.

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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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