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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Charles
Charles Bai is a healthcare entrepreneur with experience across provider, intermediary, broker, and payor levels. He is focused on identifying critical inefficiencies in the US healthcare system to drive transformative improvements in health outcomes.
Kanishk
Formerly special projects at Affirm and EE #3 at Kojo. Interested in cycling and reading science fiction. Optimistic about the world.
Rajiv
Founder and CEO of CodeComet, building an AI-powered copilot for modern engineering teams. Previously a founder at GutSavvy. Caltech-trained electrical engineer.
Deon
Deon is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Forethought, the leading generative AI platform for customer support automation. Previously served as CEO, scaling the company over seven years. An early engineer at Pure Storage and Dropbox, he brings deep technical expertise to building AI-first enterprise products.
Eric
- First mobile engineer at Ramp - Scaled iOS team at Robinhood from 1->50+ - Founder of the AppDev team at Cornell University
Jennifer
Founder. Previously MoTS @ Anthropic, Stripe. Expertise in LLM infra.
Joe
Joe is building the co-pilot for in-app monetization. Previously, he led product at Epic!, world's #1 reading app for kids. He was the first employee at Toppr.com and led product from inception to acquisition.
Bryson
Bryson is a builder that is excited about creating software and AI systems that interact with the physical world.
Deborah
Cofounder & CEO at Sparrow - the first high-tech, high-touch employee leave management solution making it simple for companies to provide employee leave throughout North America. We're making employee leave stress-free for companies like Figma, Plaid, and Headspace Health.
Rajat
Merging game marketing with AI. Built and scaled B2B SaaS in manufacturing to $200M (Tiger Global, Alphawave). Bootstrapped a land records solution for financial institutions. Believe business success comes from deeply understanding customers, not just acquiring them. IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad alumnus. Always learning and sometimes earning.

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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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