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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Dhruv
Co-Founder and former CEO of Elsewhere, the Brooklyn live music company + club. Legislative and policy advocate for music, nightlife, and small business at city, state, and federal levels. Born in Mumbai, raised in CT. Yale undergrad, first career in endowment-style asset management. Lover of jazz, oceans, surfing, sailing, SCUBA, yoga, meditation, cooking, civics, and motorcycles. Talk to me about mental health, neurological disorders, and headaches. Or just about anything. Curious about all, and love to nerd out.
Rishi
Rishi is a software engineer at Airtable. Before that, he was the first employee at Zulip, an open source team chat application.
Abhishek
Cofounder @Riverline. Multiple failed ventures, started selling software at 19. Passionate about building sustainable businesses. Enjoy crashing drones in my downtime, now focused on growing B2B SaaS
Charles
Charles Bai is a healthcare entrepreneur with experience across provider, intermediary, broker, and payor levels. He is focused on identifying critical inefficiencies in the US healthcare system to drive transformative improvements in health outcomes.
Archa
Currently founder of Channel Labs, previously co-founder of Insight Browser (acquired by Scale AI) and CTO at Milo. Earlier, she was a software engineer at Calico and Uber. Holds degrees from Stanford (AI/biocomputation) and Carnegie Mellon (ECE/CS).
Alexendar
I am CEO of Silico Therapeutics. My speciality is in software development for CRISPR target specificity. I hold a Ph.D in computer science. I hold an M.D.
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.
Josh
CTO at Generally Intelligent, an AI research company focused building human-like intelligent systems. Angel investor. Always happy to help or chat about AI, ML, or anything I've worked on previously (crypto, VR, finance, manufacturing, gaming, etc)
Victor
Prev. cofounder/CEO @Astorian (proptech contractor marketplace aqc). Cognitive science nerd, jiu jitsu enthusiast, storytelling fanatic. Curious about web3 (DAOs++), SaaS, data infrastructure, and productivity hacking.
Pacssu
Product Design Leader + Builder, Previously VP of Product Design at Ro, Currently tackling loneliness problem for new gen., PACSSU, Product Designer & Team Builder. Most recently, VP of Product Design at Ro, now exploring addressing lonlieness.

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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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