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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Dinkar
Previously, Director of Product at Meta and enthusiastic about applications of AI
Yaser
Yaser built professional dashboard on Instagram and now exploring problems in AI and Healthcare
Huanru
Henry has deep experience building AI products and AI research, previously co-founding Jenni.ai as the technical founder & CTO. At Jenni, he scaled the startup to over $7M ARR, serving 300K monthly active users. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, with published research in neural networks, NLP, and neural music generation.
Zorayr
I was one of the early engineers on Messenger and helped to grow it to billions of people; after Messenger, spent a few years as an Engineering Manager on various new products within Facebook including stories and teens pillars. I am an engineer with a PMs hat that loves to help people. Reach out if there is anything I can help with!
Sam
Building Sentience...
Ram
Working on intersection of Hardware x AI. Co-Founder Plate IQ ( YC S15 ) and Automatic Labs ( YC S15 ). I can speak about amortization to both engineers and accountants!
Samvit
Samvit Majumdar is a former SaaS entrepreneur and software engineer currently exploring new ventures and enjoying Formula 1.
Chandan
Chandan is a product leader and ex-cofounder (Adda247) with experience across Edtech, Insurance, Logistics & Internet. An IIM Ahmedabad & IIT BHU (CS) alum, he's now building Kinzy—an AI-powered edutainment platform making screen time productive for kids.
Wei
Robotics decision making and software architect. Ex Apple SPG, currently building general purpose humanoid robots.
Jacob
Hey 👋, I’m Jacob. I’m working at on the next generation of radio powered by Gen AI.

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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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