Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

James

James is a Vancouver-based entrepreneur currently building Durable. He previously founded VisualCV after building a diverse portfolio of businesses, from window‑cleaning ventures to software startups.

Catherine

Catherine is a member of technical staff at Anthropic. Prior to that she was a senior program associate at Open Philanthropy and a software engineer at Google Brain and OpenAI. Previously: computational neuroscience (left PhD program with a master's degree), computer science, and psychology + cognitive science (MIT)

Abhinav

Product and design leader focused on user-facing AI tools, most recently Director of Product at Scale AI where he launched Outlier.ai. Previously co-founded Insight Browser and led product for Quora Spaces and Sessions. Currently exploring new ideas at South Park Commons.

Rob

Co-founder and CTO of Vori, bringing modern tools to streamline food supply chains. Previously worked on vehicle systems at SpaceX and Lyft, with a background in electrical engineering from Stanford.

Tom

ex-DeepMind researcher interested in interpretability, data curation & foundation models (especially in new domains)

Vinayak

I am a scientist by training so I like to ask lot of questions and I am a fan from first principles thinking. I loved programming since I was 5 and have built algorithms and systems working collaboratively with biologist, chemist, scientists and automation engineers to reliably scale measurement of biological systems (mostly human DNA) and predicting propensity for disease. Outside work, I love the outdoors and playing and following team sports.

Sean

exploring realtime video generation, executive functioning copilots. all about unlocking new frontiers. infinite fun. prev building prototyping tools @ Google

Andrew

Andrew is a Research Scientist at TikTok focused on AI and music. Previously held roles at Scale AI and The Data Institute, and founded MusicAutobot to explore generative music. Former South Park Commons deep learning researcher with a background in ML infrastructure and creative AI.

Max

Climate-tech founder, new to SF. Since my acquisition 6 months ago, I've focused on energy & grid management and construction-tech. Based on my experience, I'd like to explore if agentic AI can help mitigate complex and messy workflows in these areas.

Jonathan

Jonathan is SPC's Storytelling Partner and is based in San Francisco. He is an expert at helping our members, companies, and the community craft and tell compelling narratives. He previously worked in campaign politics, advertising, and as an independent writer and filmmaker.