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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Henrik
Impact focused product leader with a passion for design and technology. During my career I've built companies and products from zero to one as well as been through scaling as an operator and executive.
Gustav
Data Scientist going into climate. Swede in California.
Tiantian
Deeply care about Alzheimer's, prevention, and clinical research. Formerly product at Verily/Google. Built world's first ever mosquito factory.
Devang
I'm a tinkerer with interested in transforming complex challenges across hardware, software, AI in different domains. I have built products around different domains including finance, HR and databases - and lead talented engineers, designers and data scientists in creating impactful solutions. I thrive at the bleeding edge—converting research breakthroughs into practical innovations. My passion lies in building technically ambitious products that reshape industries. Always seeking like-minded collaborators ready to create meaningful impact through technology.
Olivia
Currently building something in the generative AI space. Previously a data leader at Stitch Fix and Uber creating customer growth and marketplace technology.
Alexander
Recently sold my last startup to Coinbase. Starting a new company to fix important problems in the electric grid + energy industry.
Vivek
Vivek has been an AI researcher at Google, working on applied AI problems in healthcare. Earlier, he worked at Facebook AI research on multimodal assistant systems.
Joe
Joe (Jue) previously led growth projects at Snap focused on iOS, cross platform, and mobile performance. He holds MS and BS in computer science from UPenn and currently resides in NYC.
Sean
Sean Howell, was CEO of Hornet, where he built a 40M-user LGBTQIA+ social network, and co-founder of Buffalo Market. Sean applies lessons from consumer tech to SaaS, leveraging his global experience to create impactful, user-friendly solutions.
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.

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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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