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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Andres
Andres is the co-founder and CEO of Comun, building modern financial services for immigrant communities. Previously an investor at FJ Labs and held strategy leadership roles at Sigma Alimentos, where he led IPO planning and global category expansion.
Nick
Joined by the former CTO and founding engineer of Doctor on Demand, Nick is working to provide greater transparency to patients and providers. Starting with billing for his mother's practice in Washington DC, they are live nationwide and looking for smart and ambitious folks who want to help drive innovation in healthcare
Christina
Christina is the co-founder and CEO of Vanta, the leading trust management platform for security and compliance. Previously led product for Dropbox Paper, co-founded Nebula Labs, and taught at SVA. Earlier in her career, she was on the investment team at Union Square Ventures.
Neal
Neal is a founding advisor to Cognition and previously worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Ramp and a researcher at Google Brain, where he contributed to TensorFlow and TF-Agents. Harvard CS grad with experience spanning AI, infrastructure, and startup building.
Alex
Founder and CEO of Perl, focused on redefining search for the consumer internet. Previously built Lounge (acquired by Mozilla) and Oneminute, with early support from Greylock and the creators of Bebo and MySpace. Writes TLDR intros, a go-to newsletter for early-stage consumer founders and investors. Member of South Park Commons.
Jonathan
I'm a founder and software engineer with previous experience in legal tech and consumer products. I've worked at Google, Cisco, and Walmart Labs. I also make music.
Rohit
'- Founding ML Engineer [Compliance & AI Voice Calling] @ Salient - Leading game engine & tooling development [TFT / League of Legends] @ Riot Games - SQL Server & Telemetry @ Microsoft - EECS @ UC Berkeley big car fan (currently own a ND Miata)!
Somdev
Achievements ● Back to back NCAA singles Champion in 2007 & 2008 while at UVa ● Career high of #62 in ATP singles rankings 2011 (highest Indian since Ramesh Krishnan in 1992) ● Wins over Raonic, Cilic, Baghdatis, Isner, Anderson, Johnson, Sock, Vesely, Schuettler, Tipsarevic, Dolgopolov, Malisse, among others ● Led India to the World Group of Davis Cup in 2009 & 2010 ● Singles gold medalist at 2010 Commonwealth Games in men’s singles ● Men’s singles and doubles gold with Sanam Singh at 2010 Asian Games ● 2 career ATP World Tour Finals - 2009, Chennai and 2011, Johannesburg Awards and Recognitions ● Arjuna Award 2011, for Outstanding Performance in sports ● After major shoulder surgery in 2012, was nominated for Comeback Player of the year by the ATP in 2013 and lost out to Rafael Nadal ● Padma Shri 2018 (4th highest civilian award in India) ● NCAA Tennis Hall of Fame inductee 2019 Post Retirement from the ATP Tour in March 2016 ● Trustee of Life is a Ball Public Charitable Trust ⇢ Charity co-founded in 2011 that enables children across India to play sport ⇢ Works with over 1000 children every year ● Co-founded GetFit in 2013, a movement that works on development of children through sport in schools ⇢ Worked with over 100 schools across India ● Co-founder/ Director of Wild Warrior ⇢ Leaders in obstacle races across India ● National Observer for tennis for the Indian Ministry of youth and sports affairs 2017-18 ● Consultant for several pro’s and juniors on the tour as a mentor/ guide including: ⇢ Prajnesh Gunneswaran Career high 75 ⇢ Sumit Nagal Career high 68 ● Travelled with the Indian Davis Cup team as consultant ● High performance coach at Nensel Academy in Peine, Germany ● Media work with tennis as a commentator/ expert analyst ⇢ Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Summer Olympics ⇢ Asian games 2018 and 2023 ⇢ Australian Open 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025 ⇢ ATP 250 Pune Maharashtra Open 2019, 2020 & 2022 ⇢ Roland Garros 2022, 2023, 2024 ⇢ Commonwealth Games 2022
Amjad
Amjad Masad is the CEO and co-founder of Replit, an online coding platform that aims to make coding more accessible and social.
Bryan
CTO of Centari. We help with documents.

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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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