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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Abhinav
Abhinav works on Computer Vision, AI/ML, & Robotics. He is an Associate Professor @ UMD. Before that, he was a visiting RS at Google AI. He completed his PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017, where he was a MSR Fellow.
Tharun
Building solutions to continuously improve your voice agents. Built multiple AI products at Healthify. Always up for AI product and architecture discussions. :)
Faith
Faith is the Storytelling Associate at SPC, based in San Francisco, where she helps craft narrative and video content. Previously, she worked at United Talent Agency in Los Angeles and holds a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. In her free time, Faith enjoys watching bad (and good) movies, snowboarding, and road trips!
Brent
Brent is an investor and advisor to data startups. Previously he co-founded SafeGraph and helped the company grow to over $20M ARR. Brent was also on the founding team of Siftery (acquired by G2Crowd) and early team of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP). He holds B.S. in MS&E and M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Arushi
Previously Computer Science @ Stanford University and Infrastructure @ Reddit; interested in AI / ML applications in creative technology and artistic marketplaces, security and infrastructure engineering, improving productivity for builders, composition and sound design
Benjamin
New founder after 8+ years at Stripe. Building Substrate: the best inference APIs for the top open-source AI models. Talk to us if you're interested in super fast SDXL infra or other use cases!
Kara
Kara works with sports entities to build strategy tied to commercial development and athlete marketing. She is currently a Senior Advisor to Riot Games, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team, and Division Street, Nike Founder Phil Knight’s new athlete marketing startup. She is also the co-author of Pure Grit: Stories of Remarkable People Living with Physical Disability.
Raghavendra
RVP is the co-founder and CEO of Tezi, building the world's first fully autonomous AI recruiting agent. Previously led engineering and research at Covariant and served as CTO at Thumbtack.
James
James is a co-founder of Gamma, building a new format for modern business storytelling. Previously spent nearly eight years at Optimizely as a senior engineering leader.
Rohit
'- Founding ML Engineer [Compliance & AI Voice Calling] @ Salient - Leading game engine & tooling development [TFT / League of Legends] @ Riot Games - SQL Server & Telemetry @ Microsoft - EECS @ UC Berkeley big car fan (currently own a ND Miata)!

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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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