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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Ankit
Ankit is a Principal at South Park Commons, supporting founders from idea to company. Previously led U.S. expansion and growth at Servify and co-founded iService, a consumer device repair and service platform. He brings deep experience in GTM, operations, and cross-border scaling.
Feross
Founder & CEO of Socket. Socket helps companies defend their systems against open-source software supply chain attacks. We're growing fast and hiring!
Abishek
Abhishek is the co-founder and CEO of Material Security, where he previously served as CTO. Before that, he was an early product leader at Dropbox.
Scott
Former finance leader and management consultant, exploring ideas as an affiliated co-founder.
Priya
Aspiring Founder. I want to make things better using technology, typography, and color. ex-Apple.
Suraj
Los Angeles. CS at Dartmouth, Engineering at Thayer. AngelList (Venture) -> now
Henrik
Impact focused product leader with a passion for design and technology. During my career I've built companies and products from zero to one as well as been through scaling as an operator and executive.
Apurv
Apurv Mehra is a Computer Engineer and Researcher. Past Microsoft Research and IIITD
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.
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.

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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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