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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Fangchang
Passionate about computer vision, machine learning, and 3D. Previously leading a research team at Apple. PhD in robotics from MIT.
Joshua
Building Vectorsmith, a new kind of model and vector store for truly intelligent search. Previously 9.5 years at Asana, prior to that a lot of music.
Grant
Grant is the co-founder and CEO of Gamma, building a new medium for modern business communication. Previously COO at ClearBrain (acquired by Amplitude) and Head of Strategic Finance at Optimizely.
Colin
Colin is building Clerk, which allows you to add beautiful sign-up, sign-in, and user profiles to your application in minutes. He previously worked on products in financial services and travel.
Zachary
Ex-Msft AI PM who worked on Copilot for 2 years, quit to validate startup ideas - just launched Lovable for Chrome Extensions & now working on a new idea in stealth.
Sergei
I am a passionate product leader, executive, and builder. Currently advising+coaching high-performing founding teams while building something new. I’m a former VP Product at Discord who scaled the platform from 5M to 150M+ users and built its Nitro business from 0 to $500M+ in revenue, with prior experience leading products across social, gaming, and messaging at companies including MessageMe, Yahoo and Lolapps.
Alexander
Leading data pipeline at Foundation AI Cisco, joined via acquisition of Robust Intelligence. Opera singer and avid football (soccer) fan!
Avery
Co-founder @symphoniclabs, UWaterloo Eng 24 prev @tesla, Building neural interafaces for silent speech
Tim
Tim Shi is the Co-Founder and CTO of Cresta, where he helped pioneer the use of generative AI in the enterprise, launching a GPT-based product in 2019. A former Stanford AI researcher and early OpenAI team member, his work on web-based reinforcement learning helped shape modern digital agents. Under his leadership, Cresta powers major companies like Verizon and United Airlines, delivering hundreds of millions in ROI.
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.

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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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