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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Aditya
Founder with an exit in energy space (Airprobe), led APAC biz and global solar @ Zeitview (drones and computer vision), cofounder @ susventures. Ideating to build venture scale climatetech biz with current focus on built environment(datacenters) and energy.
Jason
Co-founder and CEO of Storytime, focused on building new ways to engage audiences through audio. Former Head of Partnerships at Expo and a long-time builder and educator at Stanford.
Somdev
Former World No. 62 and two-time NCAA Singles Champion, he led India to Davis Cup World Group and won gold at the Commonwealth and Asian Games. A recipient of the Arjuna Award and Padma Shri, he’s now a coach, mentor, and sports development advocate. He also serves as a tennis commentator across major global events.
Michael
Founder of Plato. Build internal tools without coding.
Jacinda
Jacinda is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Apero Health, building tools to streamline medical billing and infrastructure. Previously CTO and founding engineer at Doctor On Demand, where she scaled telehealth platforms from the ground up.
Samsara
I'm a software engineer and computational theory nerd interested in building tech for traditionally overlooked industries: national security and social services, for the past 5 years, and academia, for the next few.
Aazar
Aazar founded Zurons, an AI robotics lab building autonomous security robots for residential and commercial spaces. Prior to that, he worked at NASA, Integrated Dynamics and Teradata.
Dhruv
Dhruv is an ex-Googler with experience working on Machine Learning problems involving language and privacy. He likes thinking about big problems from first principles, appreciates thoughtful design in tech, and enjoys writing.
Samantha
Samantha is a software engineer with previous experience in fintech & AI. She is currently working on projects in the crypto space.
Avery
Co-founder @symphoniclabs, UWaterloo Eng 24 prev @tesla, Building neural interafaces for silent speech

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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