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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Prateek
I’m a repeat founder and systems thinker drawn to high-consequence problems. I’ve built across domains - from health-tech, music-tech to insurtech - most recently co-founding Vouch | FairDee, which merged with Qoala in 2020. As Group CTO, I helped scale the company from <$20M to $270M+ in GWP, leading product and engineering through acquisition, international expansion, and $100M+ in funding. I’ve lived the 0 to 1 chaos - bootstrapped, pivoted, shut down, merged, and scaled. Along the way, I’ve developed a deep bias for velocity, lean teams, and designing for feedback. Right now, I’m building a product that helps high-performing teams collaborate with AI agents - augmenting their playbooks without breaking them. I call it “Get Shit Done” :)
Sayan
Sayan was the founding engineer at Actively AI. He studied computer science and human-computer interaction at CMU and is interested in using technology to improve decision making.
Abiel
Co-founder and CTO of Comun, building banking infrastructure to expand financial access for immigrant communities. Previously an early engineer at Brex. Studied computer science at Stanford and is passionate about mission-driven systems that scale.
Nicholas
Part of the Founder Fellowship: excited to build something new with SPC!
Arman
Passionate about building a company that has significant social and economic impact. Right now I'm actively exploring the implications of a world where AI-generated content dominate the web and what it would look like the authenticate human artifacts (namely text).
Ben
Ben is the co-founder and CTO at Bevel. Previously he was a background in systems engineering and pricing infrastructure at Opendoor. Studied Networked & Social Systems Engineering at UPenn and is passionate about building data-informed, user-first products.
Chris
Christopher Kim is a healthcare entrepreneur with experience across provider, intermediary, broker, and payor levels. He is dedicated to identifying systemic inefficiencies and implementing transformative solutions to improve health outcomes.
Grace
Data infrastructure + developer tooling at Palantir. Explored devtools + dating while at SPC. Have now found my way to crypto :)
Charlie
Currently building Pulley to streamline construction permitting. Previously a founder, PM, and engineer at eero, Oasis Labs, and Amazon. Passionate about software, cities, and solving messy infrastructure problems.
Mehul
Tinkering in Humanoids & Trading, Ex-AlgoTrader

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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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