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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Jack
Roboticist and quantitative trader. Led Skydio's Motion Planning & Controls Team before developing proprietary trading algorithms for electricity markets. Stanford CS/EE graduate.
Vivek
Vivek has been an AI researcher at Google, working on applied AI problems in healthcare. Earlier, he worked at Facebook AI research on multimodal assistant systems.
Winston
I like building
Jayanth
Co-Founder, CTO @ Riverline
Abhinav
Founder/CEO of Breez, a cyber-security startup that secures identities in the cloud. Before Breez, I was the Chief Information Security Officer and the VP of Infrastructure at Frame.io (an NYC startup) that was acquired by Adobe in 2021.
Mel
Building the AI copilot for medication prior authorization. Previously Product at Canvas Medical and Design at IDEO.
Herrick
Interested in broadening access to impactful technology. Previously built things at Affirm, Supermove, and Qualified.
Xin
I enjoy working at early-stage companies to have a bigger impact. Having experienced a few mildly successful exits at Canadian startups, I am taking the leap to become a founder and start building something exciting.
Mike
Mike was previously CEO at Stamped and one of the first employees at Away. Background in data science & engineering, interested in bringing structured data understanding to AI agents.
Shannon
Working in Responsible AI and AI governance, and exploring how to build technology in service of a more just society. Previously, a PM at Scale AI. Berkeley alum. Based in San Francisco, and often found in NYC and Shanghai. Let's go sailing together.

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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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