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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Kara
Kara works with sports entities to build strategy tied to commercial development and athlete marketing. She is currently a Senior Advisor to Riot Games, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team, and Division Street, Nike Founder Phil Knight’s new athlete marketing startup. She is also the co-author of Pure Grit: Stories of Remarkable People Living with Physical Disability.
Benjamin
New founder after 8+ years at Stripe. Building Substrate: the best inference APIs for the top open-source AI models. Talk to us if you're interested in super fast SDXL infra or other use cases!
Josh
CTO at Generally Intelligent, an AI research company focused building human-like intelligent systems. Angel investor. Always happy to help or chat about AI, ML, or anything I've worked on previously (crypto, VR, finance, manufacturing, gaming, etc)
Sai
I'm a 2nd time founder, exploring ideas in Enterprise SaaS - Industrial AI and Robotics, i believe the future is going to be dominated by domain specialised AI especially that is touching the physical world. I'm a technologist, have deliberately chosen to work my career around startups (as i find them far more fascinating than a conventional big tech role), been doing this for 11 years in my career now! I was working in the domain of Search before i founded a data intelligence company (Spoonshot - acquired). Especially the areas/ideas at the intersection of business, technology and fundamental sciences (ex: physics, chemistry) excite me. You may ask why "fundamental sciences", well ... thats an interesting story for the time we meet. Personal: - Just moved to US (in Nov 24), born in India - Loves food, both cooking and eating - Certified Advanced Open Water Scuba Diver
Keshav
Currently thinking about how people learn with AI; previously studied causal inference and machine learning at Stanford. Hacker at heart. Learning how to play squash and piano.
Daniel
Daniel Tatenko, seasoned detective - focused on leveraging AI to streamline crime reporting, reduce officer workload, and improve public safety by enhancing collaboration between law enforcement and the community.
Manasvi
Manasvi is working on communication relay satellites. He previously worked at ViaSat with the ground infrastructure of satellites serving the internet.
Bhav
Passionate about computer vision, building a large-scale video understanding platform. Prev: Google Research, CMU
Simon
Simon is a founder (technical and GTM) exploring a few ideas in applying AI/LLMs to future-of-work and traveltech. Ex-Peloton (80th employee), Palantir, and Stanford CS. More about him in his Cofounder memo (https://bit.ly/cfmemo)
Chandan
Chandan is a product leader and ex-cofounder (Adda247) with experience across Edtech, Insurance, Logistics & Internet. An IIM Ahmedabad & IIT BHU (CS) alum, he's now building Kinzy—an AI-powered edutainment platform making screen time productive for kids.

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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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