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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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.
Jonathan
Jonathan is the Head of Design at Eigen Labs and co-founder of VectorDAO, working at the intersection of crypto, design, and product. Previously led design teams at Coinbase.
Rob
into film, computation, writing, social systems. previously founding engineer at substack, founding engineer at fin.com, early team / technical lead at venmo
Maksim
Curious about healthcare, biotech, and prop-tech. Ex engineering manager & mobile engineer at Instacart. Volunteer at NovaUkraine.org
Joe
Joe is the Co-CEO and co-founder of Titan, building the first AI-native investment platform for everyday investors. Previously worked in strategy at McKinsey and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. A Wharton and Huntsman Program graduate, he blends deep financial expertise with a product-driven vision for modern wealth management
Aman
Building my second venture focused on Software Testing Automation with AI Agents. Previously Co-founded, TurboHire and scaled it to over $1m in ARR. Earlier worked as a Product Manager & Software Engineer at Microsoft.
D.
Co-founder of Tonita, reimagining online commerce search. Previously spent over a decade at Google as a Research Director with a focus on search, machine learning, and applied research at scale.
Varun
I'm part of the FF4 -- previously worked at Transferwise and Instacart. Exploring new ideas and always excited to meet new people so please reach out!
Catherine
Catherine is a member of technical staff at Anthropic. Prior to that she was a senior program associate at Open Philanthropy and a software engineer at Google Brain and OpenAI. Previously: computational neuroscience (left PhD program with a master's degree), computer science, and psychology + cognitive science (MIT)
Thomas
Neurotech / BCI. Working with Anthony Kirilov and Nicole Dobreva :) Prev: co-founded Chai, quant trading/gambling, astro at Cambridge.

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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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