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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Jarret
Building something fun and funky to disrupt a super stale market. Previously held senior roles at companies big and small, including mktg, product, operations, biz strat/analytics, partnerships, and customer success.
Andrew
I am the cofounder and CEO of Ascend, a fintech startup that handles payments and financing for the $1T insurance industry. Previously, cofounder Sheltr (acquired by Hippo Insurance), early employee (2014) at Instacart.
Aaron
LA > NY. Serial entrepreneur and product innovator. Founded Felt, a digital mental health company, scaling to 200K+ users and $10M ARR before successful exit. MBA from Kellogg. Expert in organic growth hacking, marketing and brand building. Loves a laugh.
Tammy
Tammy is the Founder and CEO of Carrot Fertility, the leading global platform for lifelong fertility and family care. Previously held senior roles at Evernote, the FCC, and the Clinton Foundation, with early experience in the Office of the Vice President.
Andres
Andres is the co-founder and CEO of Comun, building modern financial services for immigrant communities. Previously an investor at FJ Labs and held strategy leadership roles at Sigma Alimentos, where he led IPO planning and global category expansion.
Victor
Prev. cofounder/CEO @Astorian (proptech contractor marketplace aqc). Cognitive science nerd, jiu jitsu enthusiast, storytelling fanatic. Curious about web3 (DAOs++), SaaS, data infrastructure, and productivity hacking.
Abhinav
Abhinav works on Computer Vision, AI/ML, & Robotics. He is an Associate Professor @ UMD. Before that, he was a visiting RS at Google AI. He completed his PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017, where he was a MSR Fellow.
Phil
Co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to deploy and serve machine learning models in production. Previously co-founded Shape (acquired by Reflektive) and worked on ML at Gumroad. Holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Sydney.
Peter
I’m currently exploring web3. Previously I cofounded SBLY.com, a bootstrapped company that hit $90M in TR.
Danh
Principal at SPC Fund; Formerly at Bridgewater Associates and early PM at Blend. Studied Finance & Computer Science at Penn. Born and raised in Cupertino - now lives in San Francisco (Glen Park) with his wife and 2 daughters.

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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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