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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Germain
Germain is a franco-american who studied philosophy, volunteered with Doctors without Borders, founded 2 start-ups and helped scale Chargebee from $0.5M to $100M+. He is working with Franck on the next big thing. Germain is a father and a husband.
Monique
I’m interested in systems that move things (money, goods, energy, risk, data, people). Previously built payment infrastructure for trucking at AtoB and did economics research at McKinsey.
Anthony
BA, MSc Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge PhD Computational Astrophysics at Charles University in Prague (interrupted)
Markus
Currently building WorkForge, the easiest way to get the info you need at work. Previously founder of Lobe, a visual tool to build custom deep learning models (acquired by Microsoft 2018). Graduate '14 Master's CS and '13 M&T dual degree program at Penn.
Rohan
Building an AI Growth Team. Previously built new products for SMBs and creators at Meta, Yelp, and Yahoo. As Founder, I started an 8 person company for non-profits to raise capital.
Alex
Product, prototyping, and R+D—I've done software, hardware, faceware, computer vision, always aimed at making people's interactions with computation as direct and physical as possible. I have many hot takes, which I'll share with the vaguest provocation.
Yaser
Yaser built professional dashboard on Instagram and now exploring problems in AI and Healthcare
Grace
Data infrastructure + developer tooling at Palantir. Explored devtools + dating while at SPC. Have now found my way to crypto :)
Sean
An engineer with a background in robotics and AI. Recently led scenario generation efforts for simulation at Zoox (Autonomous Vehicles). Previously started a govtech company working in criminal justice. Interested in exploring new domains and starting something new.
Geoff
Founder of Apollo GraphQL, MeteorJS, Monument, and others

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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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