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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Christian
deep tech designer
Gustav
Data Scientist going into climate. Swede in California.
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.
Jonny
Jonny is the CEO of Muon Space, leading a team building climate-focused satellite technology. Previously held senior engineering roles at Lyft (Level 5 autonomy), Google, and Terra Bella (formerly Skybox Imaging), where he led the design and launch of multiple Earth observation satellites.
Sumit
EE and CS @ Stanford. Previously CEO/cofounder of Glowstick, an AI-based 3D and animation suite. Before that I was the first AI hire @ All turtles (raised 100m+ for a zoom competitor), and was a search engineer @ laserlike (acq'd by Apple in 2019).
Steve
Business minded engineer, data scientist, and management consultant. Most recently led engineering 0 to 1 at a healthcare + fintech start up. Previously built algorithms and infra. at Lyft, and consulted for multiple Fortune 500s at Mastercard (Customer Success). Currently exploring data and Gen. AI. Global nomad: Lived in Canada, China, Iowa, Maryland, DC, Paris, and Uganda. Studied Math & Economics @ Harvard. Passionate about the environment, health, and fitness. LGBTQ+.
Vartika
Keen interest and experience in scaling technology enabled businesses with global impact that fundamentally change human experiences. Strong suit: 0 to 1, new business or geography launch, scale up journeys. + built two ventures - B2C community commerce platform and a B2B Global product exited to a global SaaS co. + launched and scaled business verticals at Uber Eats and OYO + built solar projects in Asia and Africa as first Indian employee of global leader Stanford GSB and IIT Bombay grad.
Nick
Founder. Ex-DeepMind Veo, Ex-Google APM, Ex-Cambridge ML Mphil
Sanjay
Founded a company in the food and agri tech space, scaled to $200m ARR, exited, moved to SF. Passionate about solving problems that matter and building high growth companies that have a powerful impact on people's lives.
Sahil
Exploring GenAI infra and applications. Recovering roboticist moving on from autonomous vehicles after 8 years

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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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