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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Ryan
Seasoned engineering leader: systems, data platform, MLOps, open source. Now focused on climate tech and decentralized social. Previously: NCX, Color, Quip, Google. More at https://snarfed.org/
Bryson
Bryson is a builder that is excited about creating software and AI systems that interact with the physical world.
Achyut
Current: Working on making data more accessible in web3. Previously: Machine Learning at RelyanceAI; Data Scientist at Amazon, PayPal. Love experimenting with productivity hacks
Anurag
Anurag is the founder and CEO at Render (render.com), a modern cloud provider. He was previously the eighth employee and Head of Risk at Stripe.
Will
Will is the co-founder of Syndicate Protocol, a decentralized investing platform.
Vivek
Vivek is the co-founder and CEO of Gameramp, helping games and consumer apps scale with capital and infrastructure support. Previously led new product efforts at EA and Big Viking Games.
Srinath
Srinath is the CEO and co-founder of Regie.ai, building AI-native tools for enterprise content creation. Previously co-founded Onera and was a founding engineer at BloomReach. A Carnegie Mellon PhD in algorithms, he’s spent two decades pushing forward NLP, search, and AI product infrastructure.
Sahil
Exploring GenAI infra and applications. Recovering roboticist moving on from autonomous vehicles after 8 years
John
1 molecular biology PhD + 1 decade investigative journalism + 8 years building software for defense and intelligence agencies as head of data science at Primer.ai + founding "Dance Your PhD" = me.
Kevin
Co-Founder and CEO @ Doppel.xyz. Formerly Staff Eng / EM @ Lyft, SWE @ Uber building Dispatch / Airspace platforms and shipping products. Georgetown alum based in SF, from Boston originally. I love playing basketball and spending time with my wife and dog

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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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