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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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.
Kartik
Technologist with deep expertise in hardware R&D and AI/ML. Skilled in computational modeling, simulations, and statistical analyses. Focused on leveraging SoTA AI/ML to build AI-native enterprise solutions that drive innovation and efficiency
Bryan
After a PhD in AI/ML, cofounded a unique fintech—Angaza—to make solar energy and smartphones radically more affordable in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Helped millions of households connect to electricity and internet. Now focused on AI again.
Colin
Colin is building Clerk, which allows you to add beautiful sign-up, sign-in, and user profiles to your application in minutes. He previously worked on products in financial services and travel.
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.
Arjun
Worked as a software engineer on the platform and tools team at Facebook. Zillow and Microsoft before that. Explored angel investing + engineering at startups including Detour, Thistle, Dandelion Chocolate, Taika and others.
Perla
Senior SWE interested in fintech, AI and devOps. Currently, diving deep into a few venture-scale idea. Have a co-founder but would love to meet strong individuals to add to our founding team.
Tuhin
Co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to deploy and serve machine learning models at scale. Previously co-founded Shape and worked on ML at Gumroad and Skulpt.
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.
Dylan
Design Engineer in NYC. Background in product design, maps, and data viz. Formerly at Uber working on maps + location services. Hobbies: surfing, flying planes, exploring, and working out. Reach out, let's collaborate and build something together.

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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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