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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Nischal
always striving to do my life's best work
Sanjeev
Co-founder, coinvent.ai
Shobhit
Swiss army knife. Deeply interested in technology and business. Working with Conversational AI.
Kun
Serial Entrepreneur, Autonomy Enthusiast, autonomous driving and robotics background.
Tong
Co-Founder & CEO of hologram.xyz. Previously 0x (Matcha), robotics, Penn, and freelance photography.
Nirmal
Currently exploring AI & marketplaces. Nirmal was formerly an ML engineer at Abnormal Security, where he developed ML systems to detect account takeover attacks at scale. He graduated with a CS degree from Northwestern in 2021.
Tejas
Consumer product leader w/experience in content, creator economy & gaming. Built ShareChat audio chatrooms and Moj Live, India’s largest UGC livestreaming platforms. Exploring gen AI for connection-driven products. Dabbling in mental health space and open to new ideas. Passionate about fitness, climbing & running.
Fangchang
Passionate about computer vision, machine learning, and 3D. Previously leading a research team at Apple. PhD in robotics from MIT.
Jeff
Working at the intersection of 3d simulation and digital fashion. Previously at Snowflake, Cruise, etc.
Marcel
Marcel is the founder of Apache Impala, which he started when he joined Cloudera in 2011 and for which he was the architect/TL until 2017. Before Cloudera, he worked on database technology at Google and several startups. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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