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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Deanna
Deanna leads Customer Marketing at Writer. Previously, she was head of Product Marketing at Stripe and VP of Marketing at Wealthfront.
Marci
(aka "Marci") Was an Instructor on Udemy for topics on Python, ML, and AI. Now exploring GenAI for a new company for children's media.
Grace
Data infrastructure + developer tooling at Palantir. Explored devtools + dating while at SPC. Have now found my way to crypto :)
Kashish
CS grad from IIT Delhi turned IAS officer (career civil servant in India) turned AI startup founder. Excited to innovate and collaborate!
Brent
Brent is an investor and advisor to data startups. Previously he co-founded SafeGraph and helped the company grow to over $20M ARR. Brent was also on the founding team of Siftery (acquired by G2Crowd) and early team of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP). He holds B.S. in MS&E and M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Oliver
Ex-Founder of Antimetal, SWE at Microsoft and Census. Passionate about solving the software crisis and building best-in class developer tooling to raise the default quality of new software.
Thomas
Previously was at Ramp, ready to build!
Abhinav
Abhinav is a builder with experience with Marketplaces, Search, and Distributed systems & ML Infra. Currently interested in all things Web3.
Ben
Ben is the co-founder and CTO at Bevel. Previously he was a background in systems engineering and pricing infrastructure at Opendoor. Studied Networked & Social Systems Engineering at UPenn and is passionate about building data-informed, user-first products.
Faraz
Faraz is a tech entrepreneur who previously founded two companies, including Screenhero, which sold to Slack. He's currently really into robotics.

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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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