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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Grey
Founder Fellow 2. Currently building Starlight, the financial OS for web3 teams 💫
Sara
Previously, I managed product & engineering at Scale AI, where I worked on recommendations, trust & safety, data quality and image/video labeling. Before that, I worked at Facebook & Twitter, and studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon.
Sumit
EE and CS @ Stanford. Previously CEO/cofounder of Glowstick, an AI-based 3D and animation suite. Before that I was the first AI hire @ All turtles (raised 100m+ for a zoom competitor), and was a search engineer @ laserlike (acq'd by Apple in 2019).
Maksim
Curious about healthcare, biotech, and prop-tech. Ex engineering manager & mobile engineer at Instacart. Volunteer at NovaUkraine.org
Vartika
Keen interest and experience in scaling technology enabled businesses with global impact that fundamentally change human experiences. Strong suit: 0 to 1, new business or geography launch, scale up journeys. + built two ventures - B2C community commerce platform and a B2B Global product exited to a global SaaS co. + launched and scaled business verticals at Uber Eats and OYO + built solar projects in Asia and Africa as first Indian employee of global leader Stanford GSB and IIT Bombay grad.
Lucas
As a designer and engineer, I’ve led the development of products across industrial robotics, life sciences automation, an spatial computing. Focused on building human-spatial systems products for the built world.
Nick
Founder. Ex-DeepMind Veo, Ex-Google APM, Ex-Cambridge ML Mphil
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.
Sanjay
Founded a company in the food and agri tech space, scaled to $200m ARR, exited, moved to SF. Passionate about solving problems that matter and building high growth companies that have a powerful impact on people's lives.
Jon
Jon is the co-founder of Gamma, reinventing business communication with a modern, multimedia memo format. Previously led product at Optimizely, helping enterprises build experimentation-driven cultures.

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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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