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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Vinay
Building the Next Ad Agency powered by AI Agents accessible to Thousands of Businesses.
Danilo
Founder at AppliedMind, building the foundation model for physical tasks. Past life at Medivis, building the operating system of surgery, PhD in CS (UC San Diego) focused on AR + HCI. Passionate about fast, product-driven innovation.
Rob
Co-founder and CTO of Vori, bringing modern tools to streamline food supply chains. Previously worked on vehicle systems at SpaceX and Lyft, with a background in electrical engineering from Stanford.
Kunal
Head of Product + Design at Rilla (prev. Founding Engineer). Penn '22
Zachary
Led Copilot metrics in Microsoft AI as a PM, building the fastest way to try software.
Mike
Michael graduated from Harvard College in 2017 with a master’s degree in CS, as well as a bachelor’s degree in CS and statistics. During college, he worked in the George Church Lab automating multiplexing technologies for cell culture experiments.
Danny
Immunologist and data scientist building therapeutics that matter.
Yuguang
A serial entrepreneur in robotics building diverse innovations with top 5% teams for 10+ years
Dinkar
Previously, Director of Product at Meta and enthusiastic about applications of AI
Anil
Engineering leader and 2x founder; CS at UT Austin. Past experience at Cisco and Apple. Led teams developing media and ML platforms, including on-device infrastructure and optimizations for running Apple Intelligence language & vision models.

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What our members do


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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
© 2022 All rights reserved.