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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Liam
Grew up in Canada and moved to SF immediately after graduation. Worked with an investor briefly and then spent 5 years growing Meter, working across product, operations, and sales. I'm now in NY and interested in a variety of fields like computing infrastructure and healthcare.
Jonathan
Jon is a founder and design leader with 15 years of experience building products and managing teams. He has led design at Facebook, Cruise, and Patreon. He co-founded Harvard's design conference and is currently a design advisor to several seed-stage co's.
Andrea
Andy leads the design of tools for devs and creatives, all through the lens of play. She started her career in 2010 as a filmmaker and game designer, which gave her a sharp eye for storytelling, and 10 years ago delved into product design and game design. She was the first transmedia filmmaker in Central America and cofounded the first Interaction Design school in the area. In the past she has worked at ConsenSys, MongoDB, and Roblox. Working on www.gethottake.com and www.beepboop.world
Marco
Marco began his career in academia, earning a PhD in CS at ETH Zurich before moving to Berkeley for his postdoc. From there, he became an early engineer at Pure Storage and other startups before transitioning into engineering leadership, most recently serving as VP of Engineering at Robust Intelligence. He also spent time working on incubations with Sutter Hill Ventures, giving him deep experience across the entire company-building lifecycle, from ideation to scale.
Wenyu
Wenyu Jin is a Founding Engineer / Co-Founder at Unseen-AI with 10+ years' expertise in audio DSP, machine learning, and speech enhancement algorithms (Cruise, Sonos, Starkey). He holds 18 patents, authored 16 peer-reviewed papers, and earned a PhD in Acoustics from Victoria University of Wellington. He is an IEEE Senior Member.
Varun
I'm part of the FF4 -- previously worked at Transferwise and Instacart. Exploring new ideas and always excited to meet new people so please reach out!
Nick
Joined by the former CTO and founding engineer of Doctor on Demand, Nick is working to provide greater transparency to patients and providers. Starting with billing for his mother's practice in Washington DC, they are live nationwide and looking for smart and ambitious folks who want to help drive innovation in healthcare
Tyler
Founder of Perfectly Imperfect, Ex-Meta Engineer, College Dropout, Occasional DJ, and Open-Source Developer.
Ani
Ani is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Orbital, building the ZoomInfo for companies selling to SMBs and midmarket. Previously led engineering at Cisco Meraki and held product and GTM roles at Polymail and Tivamo. Background in CS and business from Rice University.
Sanchit
Graduated from IIIT-Delhi, started career as founding employee at Zenatix, an IoT startup, contributing to its acquisition by Schneider Electric. Have worked at various stages of startups and scaled orgs like Apna Jobs and Microsoft. Enjoy building product driven tech. Also love science fiction and recently AI content generation.

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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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