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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Andrew
Software engineer, previously worked at Figma on the product and the engine, Berkeley CS. Interested in computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning.
Noah
Noah is an applied AI lead at OpenAI, focused on turning frontier models into real-world impact. Previously co-founded Eureka and led product at Forward after starting out as a software engineer. Former South Park Commons fellow.
Abishek
Abhishek is the co-founder and CEO of Material Security, where he previously served as CTO. Before that, he was an early product leader at Dropbox.
Yev
Grew up in SF, worked in software startups since I was in high school from developer tools to fighting crime. Now, I’m fixing data on the web
Nagendra
Nagendra is a technical guy, who loves building products. Earlier he worked with Facebook and lead the execution of messenger platform. Currently working on Helix - Support for Modern Teams, powered by AI, assisted by community.
Jason
Jason is the co-founder and CEO of Slab. He is also BDFL for the open source project Quill and formerly the founder of Stypi (sold to Salesforce). He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford.
Jinjing
AI entrepreneur and ex-Google DeepMind tech lead, passionate about building AI agents that tackle real-world problems—automating the tedious, unlocking the impossible.
Will
Will is the co-founder of Syndicate Protocol, a decentralized investing platform.
Zain
Founder of Eureka, a healthcare company helping patients with chronic conditions get control over their symptoms.
John
1 molecular biology PhD + 1 decade investigative journalism + 8 years building software for defense and intelligence agencies as head of data science at Primer.ai + founding "Dance Your PhD" = me.

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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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