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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Dylan
Dylan joins SPC as a Principal in NYC after spending several years as an early stage Principal investor at both Expa in New York & Founders Factory in London, UK with a strong focus on entrepreneurs building B2B software companies. In addition to investing in and supporting his founders, Dylan supports the broader tech community through hosting numerous meet-ups, dinners, and events reaching thousands of founders, operators, and investors. Before getting into VC, Dylan founded and led a successful social enterprise, theforwardmovement.ca. Dylan is a proud Canadian and can regularly be found promoting the power of the Canadian tech mafia.
Georgi
Founder of TAPP Security | Math + Stats @ Harvard | Prod, SPC & Z-Fellow
Dhruv
Dhruv is an ex-Googler with experience working on Machine Learning problems involving language and privacy. He likes thinking about big problems from first principles, appreciates thoughtful design in tech, and enjoys writing.
Kunal
Head of Product + Design at Rilla (prev. Founding Engineer). Penn '22
Tyler
Founder of Perfectly Imperfect, Ex-Meta Engineer, College Dropout, Occasional DJ, and Open-Source Developer.
Aaron
Aaron co-founded Matrix Operations, a high-frequency trading firm operating in NYC and London. He designed the software infrastructure and am responsible for realtime performance of the trading systems.
Finn
Finn works on investments and strategic projects with the SPC Fund and SPC Community. Prior to joining South Park Commons, he was a rower on the US National Team, earned his Masters at Cambridge and studied Economics at Brown.
Mike
Founded Skip (YC W18) now working on something new. Terrestrial and Internet Explorer.
Noah
Noah is an applied AI lead at OpenAI, focused on turning frontier models into real-world impact. Previously co-founded Eureka and led product at Forward after starting out as a software engineer. Former South Park Commons fellow.
Aaron
Building crypto stealth co. Former: Partner, @lightspeedvp; Founder, @livingsocial

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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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