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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Andrew
I am the cofounder and CEO of Ascend, a fintech startup that handles payments and financing for the $1T insurance industry. Previously, cofounder Sheltr (acquired by Hippo Insurance), early employee (2014) at Instacart.
Gobi
Human-AI. Travel (47 countries, 41 states). Did Stanford BSCS [AI Track] in 2Y (7 quarters) and MSCS [AI+HCI] → Digital Nomad → Northwestern PhD [HCI+CSEd]. Did student startup ldtalentwork.com ($1M gross sales, 100+ customers including Infosys/Baidu).
Jacopo
I do AI, dataOps and MLOps through open source and open science. I was once a founder (Tooso, acquired by TSX:CVO) and will likely be a founder again.
Kushal
Exploring GenAI applications and agentic workflows. Former Head of Data and Analytics at Jiocinema and Disney+ Hotstar. Expertise in Data Platforms, Video Engineering, and Infrastructure
Neeraj
Entrepreneur with expertise in Indian SMBs, E-commerce, and Payments. Co-founded Zopper, scaling it to $20M+ funding and a PhonePe acquisition. Built PhonePe’s offline merchant ecosystem from 1M to 100M transactions. MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
Yuguang
A serial entrepreneur in robotics building diverse innovations with top 5% teams for 10+ years
Rahul
Building AI agents for automating administrative work in healthcare
Gaurav
Results-driven, hands-on software engineering leader with 18+ years of experience in building products. Solid communicator, able to forge relationships with key stakeholders. Brings joy, empathy, experience, and positive energy to the workplace.
Brandon
Exploring AI x Gaming ex: 100Thieves, AngelList
Amanda
Amanda is CEO and Co-Founder of Unseen AI. Her experience is physics and signal processing, applied to develop purpose-built multi-channel acoustic devices found on autonomous cars by GM and Zoox. Prior to AVs and consumer electronics, her focus was simulation for architectural acoustics. Projects included shape/finish optimization of 36 recording studios for Warner Music Group, 16 Apple Stores, the Apple Campus.

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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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