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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Abhinav
Founder/CEO of Breez, a cyber-security startup that secures identities in the cloud. Before Breez, I was the Chief Information Security Officer and the VP of Infrastructure at Frame.io (an NYC startup) that was acquired by Adobe in 2021.
Sanchit
Graduated from IIIT-Delhi, started career as founding employee at Zenatix, an IoT startup, contributing to its acquisition by Schneider Electric. Have worked at various stages of startups and scaled orgs like Apna Jobs and Microsoft. Enjoy building product driven tech. Also love science fiction and recently AI content generation.
Jonathan
Jonathan Mortensen (JMo) is a data scientist and software engineer. After graduating with a PhD in biomedical data science in 2016 from Stanford, Jonathan founded and sold two startups: Gyroscope to BlueVoyant and bit.io to Databricks. Now, JMo is exploring on the intersection of AI and databases.
Brandon
Exploring AI x Gaming ex: 100Thieves, AngelList
Jaclyn
Jaclyn worked at Alphabet for 7 years in a variety of operational roles. She helped launch Google Helpouts (a consumer marketplace to deliver expertise over live video) and most recently worked at CapitalG helping portfolio companies scale.
Dhruv
Product manager, Deep Mind and Google Search Tech lead, Google Search and Microsoft Office I want to turn tech research into viable businesses. Know the most about NLP and ML and very interested in robotics, education, energy and space.
Feng
Do crabs think fish can fly? I’m Yan (go by my last name), just moved to SF post-Duke CS. Building weirdly fun stuff, training for triathlons, and dreaming of octopus-level sensing. Let’s jam on wild ideas—ideally mid-run, ride, bball, or dance break?
Edward
Founder exploring directions in visual genAI. Researcher in Graphics/Vision/XR (ex-Apple research scientist, PhD from UWashington). Hobbies: Playing chamber music (Violin/Viola/Piano), board games, sci-fi/fantasy
Omar
Web3 FF3 exploring gaming - https://www.omarmezenner.com
Rebecca
I’ve lived inside the finance function my entire career - from ex-big 4er to in-house finance leader. I’ve built finance teams and systems from the ground up, led complex migrations, and battled the broken workflows that define today’s finance tech stack. I’ve seen the pain from every angle: as a service provider, a builder, and a user. Founders chase product-market fit. I am the validation of the problem, and the founder-market fit. I'm not just building software; I’m rebuilding the infrastructure I wish I had. As an ex-accountant turned founder, I’m on a mission to modernize the back office and deliver an all-in-one AI finance platform that replaces fragmentation with clarity, speed, and automation.

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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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