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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Ashley
Ashley is the co-founder of Momentum.
Nikhil
Computer science engineer from Bangalore who has was early in Product at multiple unicorn supply-chain startups in India and the US (Zetwerk - India (manufacturing), Convoy (trucking) & Granular (farming) in the US), worked at Microsoft and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
David
Exploring travel community ideas. Mint.com VP Engineering; Co-founder/CTO algorithmic trading hedge fund (10yrs); PGP (encryption startup); several other startups.. From NJ; Moved west for Stanford (CompSci) and stayed in SF.
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.
Nadia
Co-founder and CEO of CodeYam, with a background in product management at Lyft and product marketing at Kamcord (acquired by Lyft). Harvard graduate and former Division I varsity fencer.
Reginald
Previously an engineer at Affirm, Growth EM at Motive, and EIR at HVF Labs. Working on startup building an access management platform.
Saul
I grew up in Israel and studied math at the technion. I worked as an ML engineer / EM at a few startups. I like to work on technical problems that involve optimization / planning in an uncertain environment. I have 22 roommates. In my free time, I practice bjj, write short stories and surf.
Shahmeer
Interested in crypto/ML/climate. Engineer. Was prev. at Robinhood (2018-2022)
Raymond
ex-uber with 5 yoe in building products centered in recommendations and matching algos.
Dhawal
Successful entrepreneur with background in eCommerce, AR, & Ad-Tech. Previously, I co-founded a venture backed startup that resulted in a successful exit to Walmart. I can help on go-to-market plans as well as product-market fit problems

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What our members do


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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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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