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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Deanna
Deanna leads Customer Marketing at Writer. Previously, she was head of Product Marketing at Stripe and VP of Marketing at Wealthfront.
Nagendra
Nagendra is a technical guy, who loves building products. Earlier he worked with Facebook and lead the execution of messenger platform. Currently working on Helix - Support for Modern Teams, powered by AI, assisted by community.
Evan
Partner at South Park Commons. Formerly @dropbox, @GreylockVC, @shopkick, Loopt (YC S05). SF local and lover of life's quirks. Grab time with me: https://calendly.com/evan-spc
Marc
Advising AI startup founding teams. Standing up an IB focused exclusively on AI, frontier & deep tech. Co-founder & CEO of General Magic, an Apple spin-off credited with creating the smartphone. Also a satellite company, climate & cleantech.
Ryan
Seasoned engineering leader: systems, data platform, MLOps, open source. Now focused on climate tech and decentralized social. Previously: NCX, Color, Quip, Google. More at https://snarfed.org/
Rajiv
Founder and CEO of CodeComet, building an AI-powered copilot for modern engineering teams. Previously a founder at GutSavvy. Caltech-trained electrical engineer.
Praveen
Praveen Chekuri is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Ascend, the first modern insurance payments platform that provides automated payments, financing, & payment operations. Previously he's worked at Hippo, Houseparty & Instacart.
Tejas
Consumer product leader w/experience in content, creator economy & gaming. Built ShareChat audio chatrooms and Moj Live, India’s largest UGC livestreaming platforms. Exploring gen AI for connection-driven products. Dabbling in mental health space and open to new ideas. Passionate about fitness, climbing & running.
Matt
Matt is working full-time on starting a climate-tech company. Previously, he was Head of Engineering at Studio and an ML Scientist at Tesla Autopilot. He spends his free time playing music, skateboarding, and nerding out about space travel and TTRPGs.
Sean
Independent technologist based in NYC. The focus: memory & personalized AI. The rest: furniture studio & grants program.

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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