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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Sudeep
Co-founder / CEO @vlmrun | Founder Fellow @southpkcommons Ex-ML Lead @ToyotaResearch | CS PhD @MIT CSAIL #girldad
Harish
Exploring consumer AI use-cases. Prev. built bluelearn - one of India's top education apps. Youtuber with 180k subscribers.
Sai
Prev. Insurance Broker, Auditor, and VC Product Manager. Currently building in Insurance x AI!
Scott
Building Elevate, AI-powered data management for private equity-backed roll-ups
Rhys
Building something to help farmers and ranchers implement regenerative agriculture. Former synbio PhD, founder, hedge fund associate, and eng leader
Emad
Tech founder and CTO
Jonathan
Jonathan is the Head of Design at Eigen Labs and co-founder of VectorDAO, working at the intersection of crypto, design, and product. Previously led design teams at Coinbase.
Afrooz
Currently leads Apple’s Applied Acoustics ML team, building next-gen audio features across the ecosystem. Previously cofounded Syng and served as Head of HomePod Software Engineering, where he helped launch the 2nd-gen HomePod.
Rajeev
Founder at Sonic Linker
Anil
Engineering leader and 2x founder; CS at UT Austin. Past experience at Cisco and Apple. Led teams developing media and ML platforms, including on-device infrastructure and optimizations for running Apple Intelligence language & vision models.

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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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