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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Shishira
Shishira is a PhD student at UMD working on video compression and understanding. He has experience with labs at Snap and Apple and was also a researcher at IISc Bangalore. Currently passionate about building systems that understand the world!
Kunal
Kunal is a Senior Engineering Manager at Coinbase, leading Base Ads and the development of onchain growth protocols. Previously co-founded Spindl (acquired by Coinbase), and held engineering leadership roles at Airbnb and Facebook.
Avery
Co-founder @symphoniclabs, UWaterloo Eng 24 prev @tesla, Building neural interafaces for silent speech
Abhinav
Abhinav is a builder with experience with Marketplaces, Search, and Distributed systems & ML Infra. Currently interested in all things Web3.
James
James is a Vancouver-based entrepreneur currently building Durable. He previously founded VisualCV after building a diverse portfolio of businesses, from window‑cleaning ventures to software startups.
Andrew
I'm a VC living in Hawaii. I work with founders investing in the things that make life worth living. My biggest hobbies are running (marathoner aiming to BQ) and surfing. Say hi!
Nick
Joined by the former CTO and founding engineer of Doctor on Demand, Nick is working to provide greater transparency to patients and providers. Starting with billing for his mother's practice in Washington DC, they are live nationwide and looking for smart and ambitious folks who want to help drive innovation in healthcare
Joe
Joe is the Co-CEO and co-founder of Titan, building the first AI-native investment platform for everyday investors. Previously worked in strategy at McKinsey and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. A Wharton and Huntsman Program graduate, he blends deep financial expertise with a product-driven vision for modern wealth management
Henry
Henry has deep experience building AI products and AI research, previously co-founding Jenni.ai as the technical founder & CTO. At Jenni, he scaled the startup to over $7M ARR, serving 300K monthly active users. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, with published research in neural networks, NLP, and neural music generation., I am interested in AI and building startups. My prior research focuses on training neural networks to generate music and natural language. In 2019, I co-founded Jenni, an AI academic writing assistant, and scaled it from $0 to $6M+ MRR.
Yev
Grew up in SF, worked in software startups since I was in high school from developer tools to fighting crime. Now, I’m fixing data on the web

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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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