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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Deepak
A software engineer at heart, Deepak co-founded Quizizz, a student engagement platform, in 2015 and served as the CTO. In those years, the company scaled to over 80 million monthly active users around the world, with active users in over 90% of US schools. The company raised $61M in funding over the years and has been profitable since 2021. Deepak is passionate about product development, technology and startups. He is currently getting back to coding hands-on, and would be happy to chat with anyone building something cool.
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.
Michael
Engineer in NYC, formerly @ Stripe, Google, Tumblr
Bryson
Bryson is a builder that is excited about creating software and AI systems that interact with the physical world.
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!
Nicole
Neuropsyhologist, increasing QOL
Victor
Prev. cofounder/CEO @Astorian (proptech contractor marketplace aqc). Cognitive science nerd, jiu jitsu enthusiast, storytelling fanatic. Curious about web3 (DAOs++), SaaS, data infrastructure, and productivity hacking.
Jaime
Jaime is currently exploring multimodal agents for the creative space. Previously, Jaime created multimodal (image + text) experiences for Humane’s AI Pin, led an AR mapping team at Niantic, built ML tools for neuroscience research at HHMI Janelia, and developed SLAM algorithms at NASA.
Ani
Ani is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Orbital, building the ZoomInfo for companies selling to SMBs and midmarket. Previously led engineering at Cisco Meraki and held product and GTM roles at Polymail and Tivamo. Background in CS and business from Rice University.
Pacssu
Product Design Leader + Builder, Previously VP of Product Design at Ro, Currently tackling loneliness problem for new gen.

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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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