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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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.
Matthew
PhD in RL, building new ways of using RL + LLMs
Kevin
Leafy Lab Cofounder | Democratizing Chip Design Stanford CS | Previously at Emerald Cloud Lab and Uber Here to accelerate ideation to manufacturing at scale
Thomas
Neurotech / BCI. Working with Anthony Kirilov and Nicole Dobreva :) Prev: co-founded Chai, quant trading/gambling, astro at Cambridge.
Joe
Joe is the Co-CEO and co-founder of Titan, building the first AI-native investment platform for everyday investors. Previously worked in strategy at McKinsey and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. A Wharton and Huntsman Program graduate, he blends deep financial expertise with a product-driven vision for modern wealth management
Yusuf
I like to build time machines! I'm a software engineer with experience computer vision research and developer tools. I'm currently founding NatML, building cross-platform machine learning and media tools for developing interactive software.
Kshitij
Co-founder of Orb, building billing infrastructure for modern software teams. Previously led real-time infrastructure at Asana. Studied computer science and philosophy at Caltech and was part of the South Park Commons founder fellowship.
Marci
(aka "Marci") Was an Instructor on Udemy for topics on Python, ML, and AI. Now exploring GenAI for a new company for children's media.
Ben
Ben is the co-founder and CTO at Bevel. Previously he was a background in systems engineering and pricing infrastructure at Opendoor. Studied Networked & Social Systems Engineering at UPenn and is passionate about building data-informed, user-first products.
Christian
deep tech designer

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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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