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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Sanjeev
Co-founder, coinvent.ai
Ben
Co-founder & CTO of Mesa. Prev: YC S24, Census, Microsoft
Lucas
As a designer and engineer, I’ve led the development of products across industrial robotics, life sciences automation, an spatial computing. Focused on building human-spatial systems products for the built world.
Shahbaz
Shahbaz founded Zurons, an AI robotics lab building autonomous security robots for residential and commercial spaces. Prior to that, he worked at Apple, NASA and EA Sports.
Sahil
Sahil is a customer-focused engineer with an extensive background in AI, recommender systems, and marketplaces. He has served an engineer and an eng leader at Facebook and Uber, working on News Feed, Video Growth, as well as Uber’s Dispatching Algorithms.
Vinay
Building something new in Web3. Previously startup founder, Product @ Facebook. Manchester United fan and Pizzaterian for life.
Sandor
ML/AI humanoid robot research engineer from MIT CSAIL, ex-Tesla Optimus. Researched robot learning for locomotion and manipulation. Led and scaled small- to medium-sized engineering teams including the UK’s #1 autonomous racing team comprising 150 members.
Ang
I am a startup founder in artificial intelligence, with a variety of research and product experiences on autonomous driving, videos, cameras, maps, advertisements, etc. My research aims at building lifelong autonomous agents. Previously, I worked at Google DeepMind, Baidu Apollo, Facebook AI Research, CMU Robotics, Apple, Google Streetview, and Comcast Labs DC. I received my Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland College Park. My PhD thesis is spatial perception from visual and linguisitc information.
Gloria
Gloria is the founder and CEO of Siteline, bringing modern financial tools to the construction industry. Previously Stripe’s first PM hire, where she worked on Checkout, Dashboard, and Risk/Identity.
Damon
Software engineer & technical leader in Games. I've worked in the industry for 15 years at studios ranging from my own startup to AAA. If you're interested in the games space hit me up.

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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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