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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Kyle
Founder - Inflight.co, prev design at Airchat, Facebook, Tinder.
James
Founder exploring new ideas in un-sexy spaces.
Christian
deep tech designer
Sam
Applied ML and fishing enthusiast. Former ML eng at Waymo and Google.
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.
John
1 molecular biology PhD + 1 decade investigative journalism + 8 years building software for defense and intelligence agencies as head of data science at Primer.ai + founding "Dance Your PhD" = me.
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
Vinay
Building something new in Web3. Previously startup founder, Product @ Facebook. Manchester United fan and Pizzaterian for life.
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.
Faraz
Faraz is a tech entrepreneur who previously founded two companies, including Screenhero, which sold to Slack. He's currently really into robotics.

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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.