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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Sam
Building Sentience...
Michelle
Exploring mass electrification and ways to build critical power grid infrastructure.
Daanish
Born in Kashmir. Left at 16 to attend Stanford, where I had the good luck of learning from some of the world's great thinkers. Founded a hacker-artist collective and an edtech co. Now shaping my next adventure. Ping me about books or nn pretraining!
Harshvardhan
Hey, you can call me Harsh! Founder of Metarch (metarch.ai) & Manifold Research (manifoldrg.com). Previously, AI Research Scientist & Faculty @ Georgia Tech, Peraton/Perspecta Labs, Paperspace ATG, Harvard My aim is to research, build, and commercialize high leverage science and technology to advance human civilization, starting with Next Generation AI.
Tinghui
Tinghui is Senior Engineering Manager at Roblox, leading teams building 3D foundation models. Previously co-founded Sway, an AI video synthesis startup acquired by Roblox, and was a researcher at UC Berkeley and Google. He has a PhD in computer science and a deep focus on generative media and AI systems.
William
Currently exploring the intersection of generative audio and artists rights. Previously, I helped build Woven Science, an evergreen fund and venture studio supporting a portfolio of 25 mental health companies. xGoogle, xFulbright. Before that spent too much time at Google. I enjoy working in spaces between art and science, and spend spare time reading, writing, surfing, and skiing.
Archa
Currently founder of Channel Labs, previously co-founder of Insight Browser (acquired by Scale AI) and CTO at Milo. Earlier, she was a software engineer at Calico and Uber. Holds degrees from Stanford (AI/biocomputation) and Carnegie Mellon (ECE/CS).
Scott
Former finance leader and management consultant, exploring ideas as an affiliated co-founder.
Ciro
Founder. Went from bootstrap to acquisition to IPO in 5 years. Really into startups, ML, NLP, Data and strange music.
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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