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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Biswanath
I have been a quant trader at Nomura, and a quant strategist at a $2B AUM hedge fund. The entrepreneur in me built buyt.in, acquired by Dailyhunt, India's largest content platform, where we built out the monetization product, scaling to $50M revenue. A "techno-quant", I aim to marry my two passions - product and investment management - to make investing simpler.
Archa
Currently founder of Channel Labs, previously co-founder of Insight Browser (acquired by Scale AI) and CTO at Milo. Earlier, she was a software engineer at Calico and Uber. Holds degrees from Stanford (AI/biocomputation) and Carnegie Mellon (ECE/CS).
Sam
Applied ML and fishing enthusiast. Former ML eng at Waymo and Google.
Katrin
AI researcher with 15 years of experience, mostly in NLP, machine translation and speech recognition. Previously at Google Research. Interested in AI for inclusivity and accessibility in speech domain. Here to explore the open source AI world.
Arman
Passionate about building a company that has significant social and economic impact. Right now I'm actively exploring the implications of a world where AI-generated content dominate the web and what it would look like the authenticate human artifacts (namely text).
Scott
I'm currently exploring applications of Generative AI and advising startups on ML. Previously, I led ML at Amplitude and was a founding engineer at ClearBrain.
Mike
Mike was previously CEO at Stamped and one of the first employees at Away. Background in data science & engineering, interested in bringing structured data understanding to AI agents.
Raghav
Software engineer and technical leader. Formerly: co-founded lightpage.com, led the AI engineering team at Airtable to first public launch, led internal deployment of Presto at Meta. He has a Masters in distributed systems from Princeton.
Charles
Design prototyper and co-founder of Frisson Labs. We're building AI companions that you'll cherish! In my free time I love designing board games and nerding out about history.
Vinay
Building something new in Web3. Previously startup founder, Product @ Facebook. Manchester United fan and Pizzaterian for life.

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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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