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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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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Hongzi
Hongzi is the co-founder of Particle.
Eddie
Designer / Engineer combo! Worked on novel interfaces at Humane and iOS/Desktop at Slack. Studied CS at Brown and did design stuff at RISD. Former Hack@Brown co-director. Excited about the new interfaces AI will enable us to build.
Waseem
I'm a cofounder of Pilot, a modern finance team offering the best bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. I'm an engineer by background and have cofounded and sold a couple of companies with friends I met while studying at MIT. In 2011, Ksplice was acquired by Oracle, and Zulip was acquired by Dropbox in 2014.
Avi
Avi is the former Head of Product at Neeva.com -- the world's first ad-free, private search engine. Prior to Neeva, he was at YouTube where he built & led a new ads business focused on shopping & commercial actions.
Oliver
Ex-Founder of Antimetal, SWE at Microsoft and Census. Passionate about solving the software crisis and building best-in class developer tooling to raise the default quality of new software.
Shreepoorna
Shreepoorna S Rao, founder of Arctus Aerospace, IIT Madras alum. Leading innovation in high-altitude drones for defense and geospatial data, combining technical expertise with a mission to disrupt aerospace with cost-effective solutions.
Herrick
Interested in broadening access to impactful technology. Previously built things at Affirm, Supermove, and Qualified.
Justin
Hey! I'm Justin. I'm an ML Engineer based in NYC. I've spent 7 years architecting large‑scale ML systems end to end and have ridden the startup roller‑coaster a few times. I'm originally from Canada, but spent most of my early years abroad in Asia.
Brad
Benbase: your AI-native, human-first benefits advisor
Perla
Senior SWE interested in fintech, AI and devOps. Currently, diving deep into a few venture-scale idea. Have a co-founder but would love to meet strong individuals to add to our founding team.

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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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