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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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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Nagasrikanth
Founder in Robotics & ML. Built Explorer AI, a large-scale mapping platform for autonomous vehicles (acquired by Standard Cognition). On a mission to bring robots 🤖 into everyday life. CMU alum & yoga teacher 🧘🏻‍♂️.
Pranav
Business engineer. Previously worked in pre-seed, seed, series A engineering/adjacent roles. Interests in financial markets, fintech, and infrastructure.
Michael
I'm a full-stack engineer based in SF currently building AI tools for executive coaches at Encore. I also dabble in 3D printing/ electronics. Previously at LiveRamp, Fin, TripAdvisor, Brown
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.
Huanru
Henry has deep experience building AI products and AI research, previously co-founding Jenni.ai as the technical founder & CTO. At Jenni, he scaled the startup to over $7M ARR, serving 300K monthly active users. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, with published research in neural networks, NLP, and neural music generation.
Zorayr
I was one of the early engineers on Messenger and helped to grow it to billions of people; after Messenger, spent a few years as an Engineering Manager on various new products within Facebook including stories and teens pillars. I am an engineer with a PMs hat that loves to help people. Reach out if there is anything I can help with!
Avi
Avi is the former Head of Product at Neeva.com -- the world's first ad-free, private search engine. Prior to Neeva, he was at YouTube where he built & led a new ads business focused on shopping & commercial actions.
James
Exploring healthcare and government. Previously at US Digital Service, 1st product manager @ Color Health, Dropbox, Google. Meditator, improviser, fan of Chipotle.
Sam
Building Sentience...
Alex
Ex-Palantir, Ex-gov. Working in the govtech space

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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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