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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Markus
Currently building WorkForge, the easiest way to get the info you need at work. Previously founder of Lobe, a visual tool to build custom deep learning models (acquired by Microsoft 2018). Graduate '14 Master's CS and '13 M&T dual degree program at Penn.
Andrew
Software engineer, previously worked at Figma on the product and the engine, Berkeley CS. Interested in computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning.
Vamsi
Biophysicist -> founder. Built secure online identity network @ Sora; acq. by CLEAR and scaled to 30M+ users. Now building AI for data science & studying RNA kinetics. Interests: theoretical science, deep tech, markets & regulation, guitar, Muay Thai.
Ankit
Builder. - liked to paint as a kid - worked on racecars and did standup comedy as a fresher in IIT - started off joining early YC-backed teams - found love in tinkering with tech to solve problems - failed building a company in final year of undegrad - moved to the Bay during masters at CMU - picked up on AI wave - building B2B SaaS startup with friends from college
Omar
Web3 FF3 exploring gaming - https://www.omarmezenner.com
Ning
Ning came from Meta FAIR where he worked as a research engineer on speech/text translation and multimodal LLM. Ning is exploring the intersection of AI applications and SMS platforms.
Dhawal
Successful entrepreneur with background in eCommerce, AR, & Ad-Tech. Previously, I co-founded a venture backed startup that resulted in a successful exit to Walmart. I can help on go-to-market plans as well as product-market fit problems
Guglielmo
Co-founder of the robotics simulation and software infrastructure company Adjoint, Inc. Previously, a mission planning visiting researcher at NASA/JPL, and Ph.D. candidate in aerospace engineering at Polytechnic of Turin.
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!
Benjamin
New founder after 8+ years at Stripe. Building Substrate: the best inference APIs for the top open-source AI models. Talk to us if you're interested in super fast SDXL infra or other use cases!

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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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