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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William
Currently exploring the intersection of generative audio and artists rights. Previously, I helped build Woven Science, an evergreen fund and venture studio supporting a portfolio of 25 mental health companies. xGoogle, xFulbright. Before that spent too much time at Google. I enjoy working in spaces between art and science, and spend spare time reading, writing, surfing, and skiing.
Sami
Founder of Echo Chunk AI. Building strategy games that generate themselves.
Nicole
Neuropsyhologist, increasing QOL
Harish
Exploring consumer AI use-cases. Prev. built bluelearn - one of India's top education apps. Youtuber with 180k subscribers.
Alejandro
Founding team at Valiu (access to USD in Colombia and Venezuela, YC S19), first PM at Bitrefill (world's largest crypto e-commerce site). Now leading the MetaMask Card product.
Shruti
Former founder excited to start my next company! My strengths are in Product & Ops. Ex-Google, Ex-Stripe.
Jacinda
Jacinda is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Apero Health, building tools to streamline medical billing and infrastructure. Previously CTO and founding engineer at Doctor On Demand, where she scaled telehealth platforms from the ground up.
Audrey
PhD in Lean Construction from UC Berkeley. Builder of big buildings like Tesla's giga factory in Austin TX. Co-founder of Fieldworks AI.
Shahmeer
Interested in crypto/ML/climate. Engineer. Was prev. at Robinhood (2018-2022)
Adam
Former Product Head at Palantir, multi-time CPO, and owner of First Principles, a product agency for emerging tech companies. Adam is the author and host of www.emergentproduct.com and is passionate about solving complex missions and AI-First products.

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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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