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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Joshua
Building Vectorsmith, a new kind of model and vector store for truly intelligent search. Previously 9.5 years at Asana, prior to that a lot of music.
Ankit
Ankit is a Principal at South Park Commons, supporting founders from idea to company. Previously led U.S. expansion and growth at Servify and co-founded iService, a consumer device repair and service platform. He brings deep experience in GTM, operations, and cross-border scaling.
Aman
I'm a licensed pilot and love flying Cessnas in the NorCal area. I've got about 10 years of experience working on 0 to 1 projects at Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta's internal innovation lab.
Scott
Co-founder @ Limo. Previously led Product Engineering at Rockset. Stanford CS
Edward
Founder exploring directions in visual genAI. Researcher in Graphics/Vision/XR (ex-Apple research scientist, PhD from UWashington). Hobbies: Playing chamber music (Violin/Viola/Piano), board games, sci-fi/fantasy, Founder exploring directions in visual genAI. Researcher in Graphics/Vision/XR (ex-Apple research scientist, PhD from UWashington). Hobbies: Playing chamber music (Violin/Viola/Piano), board games, sci-fi/fantasy
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.
Nikhil
Computer science engineer from Bangalore who has was early in Product at multiple unicorn supply-chain startups in India and the US (Zetwerk - India (manufacturing), Convoy (trucking) & Granular (farming) in the US), worked at Microsoft and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Joseph
Joe is a Principal Scientist at Adobe and former co-founder and CEO of Facet, an AI-powered image editing platform. Previously co-founded Premise Data, where he served as CTO.
Danh
Principal at SPC Fund; Formerly at Bridgewater Associates and early PM at Blend. Studied Finance & Computer Science at Penn. Born and raised in Cupertino - now lives in San Francisco (Glen Park) with his wife and 2 daughters.
Kashish
CS grad from IIT Delhi turned IAS officer (career civil servant in India) turned AI startup founder. Excited to innovate and collaborate!

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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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