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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Nirmal
Currently exploring AI & marketplaces. Nirmal was formerly an ML engineer at Abnormal Security, where he developed ML systems to detect account takeover attacks at scale. He graduated with a CS degree from Northwestern in 2021.
Pierre
Hi, I’m Pierre Ettori, a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling Cloud and SaaS products. I’ve led product and go-to-market efforts at companies like Google and Temporal, and I was the CEO and co-founder of Styra, creators of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. I was also part of Nicira’s journey to acquisition by VMware. As a former professional athlete turned tech leader, I bring energy, focus, and a passion for helping businesses adopt transformative technologies to build better products, faster.
Kanjun
Kanjun Qiu is the CEO of Generally Intelligent, an AI research company building human-like general intelligence by evolving self-supervised architectures to tackle human developmental milestones of increasing complexity. Kanjun is interested in human agency, institutions for discovery, social technologies, and understanding what machine learning algorithms might teach us about psychology.
Ben
Ben is Head of Product for Enterprise Solutions at Scale AI, previously co-founder and CEO of Stelo Labs and Rume (YC S20). He began his career as a PM at Google, working on ML ranking and Android system UI.
Santiago
Santi is the CEO and co-founder at Momentum.io. He was previously co-founder and CTO at Blameless, CTO of Whyline, first employee and Director of Engineering at Sauce Labs, Staff engineer at Mulesoft. He cares about entrepreneurship, great company culture, building delightful products, and accomplishing great goals.
Aditya
Founder with an exit in energy space (Airprobe), led APAC biz and global solar @ Zeitview (drones and computer vision), cofounder @ susventures. Ideating to build venture scale climatetech biz with current focus on built environment(datacenters) and energy.
Alex
Product, prototyping, and R+D—I've done software, hardware, faceware, computer vision, always aimed at making people's interactions with computation as direct and physical as possible. I have many hot takes, which I'll share with the vaguest provocation.
Lakshman
I'm one of those true believers in crypto you might've read about. Building a 10 year career in the space. Currently focused on building out Ethereum 2.0 at the Ethereum Foundation. I write here: https://www.lakshmansankar.com/#/
Yaser
Yaser built professional dashboard on Instagram and now exploring problems in AI and Healthcare
Arian
I build early stage products and teams. Worked on scaling at Homejoy and product at Fin. Started Riya Collective and went through YCW20 with my co-founder. Love the SPC community and organized the first community camping/glamping trip.

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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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