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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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.
Andrew
Andrew is a Research Scientist at TikTok focused on AI and music. Previously held roles at Scale AI and The Data Institute, and founded MusicAutobot to explore generative music. Former South Park Commons deep learning researcher with a background in ML infrastructure and creative AI.
Aaron
Building crypto stealth co. Former: Partner, @lightspeedvp; Founder, @livingsocial
Ben
Founder and Engineer building the AI copilot for medication prior auth. Previously Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Rupa Health. British 🇬🇧 and an improv comedian 🤣
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
Jonathan
Jonathan is SPC's Storytelling Partner and is based in San Francisco. He is an expert at helping our members, companies, and the community craft and tell compelling narratives. He previously worked in campaign politics, advertising, and as an independent writer and filmmaker.
Charlie
Founder, artist, & product leader building something new 🐣 Wrote distraction-blocker app SelfControl, started an ed-tech company, sold to Workday, worked on new product strategy there for 5 years Last 2 years: building big steel fire-shooting sculptures 🔥
Mohak
CEO of Atlys, building a modern platform to simplify global travel documentation. Previously a software engineer at Pinterest, where he spent over three years scaling consumer products. Studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon and is passionate about seamless, tech-enabled travel experiences.
Nikhil
Love shipping software products in the intersection of software engineering and machine learning. , Love building software. AI/ML Engineering Leader. Worked on a team at Apple which built RAG at Web Scale. Have worked on natural language understanding for Siri, Cortana, Bing, Kinect.
Rishi
Rishi is a software engineer at Airtable. Before that, he was the first employee at Zulip, an open source team chat application.

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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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