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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Dhruv
Co-Founder and former CEO of Elsewhere, the Brooklyn live music company + club. Legislative and policy advocate for music, nightlife, and small business at city, state, and federal levels. Born in Mumbai, raised in CT. Yale undergrad, first career in endowment-style asset management. Lover of jazz, oceans, surfing, sailing, SCUBA, yoga, meditation, cooking, civics, and motorcycles. Talk to me about mental health, neurological disorders, and headaches. Or just about anything. Curious about all, and love to nerd out.
Scott
Software Engineer with experience in Autonomous Driving, VR/AR and On-Device Machine Learning. North Carolina -> SF Bay Area.
Nagendra
Nagendra is a technical guy, who loves building products. Earlier he worked with Facebook and lead the execution of messenger platform. Currently working on Helix - Support for Modern Teams, powered by AI, assisted by community.
Hanson
Building https://arcwise.app to bring data science to everyone. Formerly worked on ML infrastructure and developer tools as a MLE/SWE @ Meta.
Dina
Head of Product, Gen AI Data @Adobe | VC Scout @NEA | Former Founding Engineer at Source AI (acquired by DataRobot) | Working on something new
Shahmeer
Interested in crypto/ML/climate. Engineer. Was prev. at Robinhood (2018-2022)
Rui
Engineer and Researcher. Cofounder/CTO of Expedock - Forbes Under 30. Working on something new.
Brian
Brian Fields earned his Ph.D. in computer architecture from Berkeley and was the CTO of the Minerva Project. Brian's current project, Flowplay AI, aims to convert the awe-inspiring demonstrations of generative AI into practical, user-friendly applications.
Kanishk
Formerly special projects at Affirm and EE #3 at Kojo. Interested in cycling and reading science fiction. Optimistic about the world.
Bhav
Passionate about computer vision, building a large-scale video understanding platform. Prev: Google Research, CMU

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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