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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Benjamin
Exploring in education. Previously building Songbird Therapy, a tech-enabled autism platform across 3 states / mid 7 figures. Let's chat about AI in services, labor markets, automated outbound, growth, regulated markets, modern entrepreneurship, interns!
Apurv
Apurv Mehra is a Computer Engineer and Researcher. Past Microsoft Research and IIITD
Sheetal
Exploring next-gen experiences at the intersection of media x social gaming x AI. Seasoned AI/ML product leader: voice agents, SLMs, speech AI, generative designs. Previously: @sarvamai, office ai @microsoft. Cooking, coffee, and geeking out on TV/shows (current obsession - Succession)
Tremaine
Tre is the co-founder of Vori, an OS for the grocery industry. Previously, he was co-founder at Greo (YCS17), a video social network for meaningful conversations (Top 40 on app store). Previously design @ Google & Mozilla, and built a nationally recognized education non-profit.
Sanjay
Founded a company in the food and agri tech space, scaled to $200m ARR, exited, moved to SF. Passionate about solving problems that matter and building high growth companies that have a powerful impact on people's lives.
Brian
Life-long early-stage, co-founding engineer focused on building teams and making useful products on systems that don't page.
Lucas
As a designer and engineer, I’ve led the development of products across industrial robotics, life sciences automation, an spatial computing. Focused on building human-spatial systems products for the built world.
Tejas
Consumer product leader w/experience in content, creator economy & gaming. Built ShareChat audio chatrooms and Moj Live, India’s largest UGC livestreaming platforms. Exploring gen AI for connection-driven products. Dabbling in mental health space and open to new ideas. Passionate about fitness, climbing & running.
Irfan-ali
Former Instagram Product Lead with experience launching 0-to-1 products that grow quickly and persist. Can help with anything from recipe developing GTM plans to strategies for sparking network effects and building marketplace businesses.
Daniel
I'm Daniel, building SaaS for field worker employers. Previously, I worked early product & engineering roles at TikTok, Ramp, and Shop Cider. On the side, I'm a history buff and photographer :)

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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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