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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Scott
Co-founder @ Limo. Previously led Product Engineering at Rockset. Stanford CS
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.
Rohit
'- Founding ML Engineer [Compliance & AI Voice Calling] @ Salient - Leading game engine & tooling development [TFT / League of Legends] @ Riot Games - SQL Server & Telemetry @ Microsoft - EECS @ UC Berkeley big car fan (currently own a ND Miata)!
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.
An
Hi!! Exploring AI interfaces right now, and products that make us more human. Previously founded Logseq, Verci, The Farm, and before that was building Mars Rover software at NASA JPL!
Bhav
Passionate about computer vision, building a large-scale video understanding platform. Prev: Google Research, CMU
Oliver
Ex-Founder of Antimetal, SWE at Microsoft and Census. Passionate about solving the software crisis and building best-in class developer tooling to raise the default quality of new software.
Andrea
Highly curious BME and self taught Dev.
Jaclyn
Jaclyn worked at Alphabet for 7 years in a variety of operational roles. She helped launch Google Helpouts (a consumer marketplace to deliver expertise over live video) and most recently worked at CapitalG helping portfolio companies scale.
Evan
Tinkerer with a background in AI and Education, interested in building tools for better pedagogy and tools for thinking. Currently thinking about how to build a better online reading experience. Let's chat about LLMs, Jose Luis Borges, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

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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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