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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Meia
Obsessed with fixing our food systems and ecosystems. Prev: cofounder/cto @ feanix (yc s23, biotech x cattle), ml eng @ google[x] in ag-tech, cs @ mit. Now: USDA organic inspector exploring in sustainable ag + helping startups.
Zain
Founder of Eureka, a healthcare company helping patients with chronic conditions get control over their symptoms.
Phil
Co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to deploy and serve machine learning models in production. Previously co-founded Shape (acquired by Reflektive) and worked on ML at Gumroad. Holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Sydney.
Trisha
Trisha is the co-founder and CEO of Unit21. She was previously an early engineer at Affirm, and subsequently PM. She studied Computer Science at Penn. She loves to paint.
Bill
Hard-tech creator (former Tesla/Apple/IBM) - former chief system architect for Dojo AI supercomputer / designed system-on-wafer technology
Jinjing
AI entrepreneur and ex-Google DeepMind tech lead, passionate about building AI agents that tackle real-world problems—automating the tedious, unlocking the impossible.
Vijit
13+ years in software industry, led various R&D teams in Alexa AI for the past 6+ years. recently relocated back from the US to Bangalore to build something of my own. currently exploring what the next generation of AI-driven interactive entertainment might look like.
Aaron
Founder of Hyper Online, a leading avatar content creation platform used by streamers across TikTok, Twitch, and Steam. Previously a product designer at Facebook and Cash App, where he helped launch key features and co-invented four patents. Advisor to dYdX.
Dwight
Founder, Chairman of Board for Whisper.ai. We are a team of artificial intelligence, hearing care, hardware, and software experts coming together to solve the challenge of providing better hearing.
Michael
CTO @ Rallyboard

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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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