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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Kyle
Founder - Inflight.co, prev design at Airchat, Facebook, Tinder.
Evan
Tinkerer with a background in AI and Education, interested in building tools for better pedagogy and tools for thinking. Currently thinking about how to build a better online reading experience. Let's chat about LLMs, Jose Luis Borges, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Christian
deep tech designer
Achyut
Current: Working on making data more accessible in web3. Previously: Machine Learning at RelyanceAI; Data Scientist at Amazon, PayPal. Love experimenting with productivity hacks
Henry
Henry has deep experience building AI products and AI research, previously co-founding Jenni.ai as the technical founder & CTO. At Jenni, he scaled the startup to over $7M ARR, serving 300K monthly active users. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego, with published research in neural networks, NLP, and neural music generation.
Santiago
Santi is the CEO and co-founder at Momentum.io. He was previously co-founder and CTO at Blameless, CTO of Whyline, first employee and Director of Engineering at Sauce Labs, Staff engineer at Mulesoft. He cares about entrepreneurship, great company culture, building delightful products, and accomplishing great goals.
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.
Faith
Faith is the Storytelling Associate at SPC, based in San Francisco, where she helps craft narrative and video content. Previously, she worked at United Talent Agency in Los Angeles and holds a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. In her free time, Faith enjoys watching bad (and good) movies, snowboarding, and road trips!
Gavin
Co-founder and CEO of Column Tax, building modern tax infrastructure for the digital era. Previously led strategy and operations at Waymo.
Michael
Michael is the co-founder and CTO at Column Tax, building software to make taxes radically simpler. Previously worked on simulation systems for self-driving cars at Waymo, Uber ATG, and Aurora.

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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