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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Kunal
Head of Product + Design at Rilla (prev. Founding Engineer). Penn '22
Nick
Co-founder at ROSNIK AI, working on improving the experience of human in the loop AI systems. Previously, built software to scale Modern Health and Optimizely. Happy to chat about all things startups, software engineering, distributed systems, mental health, and food.
Anthony
BA, MSc Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge PhD Computational Astrophysics at Charles University in Prague (interrupted)
Varun
I'm part of the FF4 -- previously worked at Transferwise and Instacart. Exploring new ideas and always excited to meet new people so please reach out!
Tinghui
Tinghui is Senior Engineering Manager at Roblox, leading teams building 3D foundation models. Previously co-founded Sway, an AI video synthesis startup acquired by Roblox, and was a researcher at UC Berkeley and Google. He has a PhD in computer science and a deep focus on generative media and AI systems.
Yev
Grew up in SF, worked in software startups since I was in high school from developer tools to fighting crime. Now, I’m fixing data on the web
Jon
Jon is the co-founder of Gamma, reinventing business communication with a modern, multimedia memo format. Previously led product at Optimizely, helping enterprises build experimentation-driven cultures.
Rishi
Rishi is a software engineer at Airtable. Before that, he was the first employee at Zulip, an open source team chat application.
Harish
Exploring consumer AI use-cases. Prev. built bluelearn - one of India's top education apps. Youtuber with 180k subscribers.
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.

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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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