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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Chris
Previously co-founder of a fitness CV company that sold to Peloton. Currently exploring startup ideas in the generative AI space.
Abhinav
Exploring AI for connecting humans. Formerly Director PM & Design at Scale AI, ML Eng at Facebook, first engineer at Duolingo.
Ying
After spending 12 years as a public market investor at hedge funds, I am now building AI assistant for institutional investors.
Hish
Hish is the co-founder of Tribes.
Dakota
Lifelong Midwesterner, currently living in Kansas City along with the wife and two pets (dog-Sunny, cat-Kit Cat). I'm passionate about building solutions with outcomes of healthier communities and people, which is what has led me to working in an endeavor that's aimed at helping to drive adoption of regenerative agriculture. (check out Rooted Ag) Beyond work, I love spending time in nature and observing, making warm connections with people, and listening to good music.
Alex
Alex is the co-founder of Playbook.com, a cloud storage and collaboration tool for creatives. Before that, he studied at CMU and was an engineer at Addepar and Opendoor.
Rajat
Built and scaled B2B SaaS + Marketplace in manufacturing to $200M (Tiger Global, Alphawave). Bootstrapped a land records solution for financial institutions. IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad alumnus. Always learning and sometimes earning.
Bharat
Engineering leader & distributed systems expert. Ex-VP Eng at Dream11, scaled teams & systems powering $800M biz with 260M+ users. IIT Delhi grad 2nd time founder, building in stealth. Passionate about tech, scale, and creating high-impact products.
Sai
building in games x ai x data
Justin
Justin most recently led Growth at Rockset, and worked on Google's Cloud Security team prior. He was also the Founder/CEO of Xenia Gifts. Justin graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration.

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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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