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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Jared
Jared has been developing software for over 20 years. He has started multiple companies and a non-profit. He started the Boston office for Pivotal and served as the Director for the first year of operations. He is currently exploring Web3.
Benjamin
New founder after 8+ years at Stripe. Building Substrate: the best inference APIs for the top open-source AI models. Talk to us if you're interested in super fast SDXL infra or other use cases!
Sanjeev
Co-founder, coinvent.ai
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
Mike
Founded Skip (YC W18) now working on something new. Terrestrial and Internet Explorer.
Nischal
always striving to do my life's best work
Veer
Veer is a CS major from MIT specializing in AI and distributed systems. He's currently building Inflight, a platform that democratizes access to expert feedback, enabling teams to build better products. Previously, Veer built Airchat for two years.
Vishal
Founder, Embedding.store • SPC Fellow • ML at Twitter, Microsoft • Singer, Songwriter
Marc
Advising AI startup founding teams. Standing up an IB focused exclusively on AI, frontier & deep tech. Co-founder & CEO of General Magic, an Apple spin-off credited with creating the smartphone. Also a satellite company, climate & cleantech.
Mohak
CEO of Atlys, building a modern platform to simplify global travel documentation. Previously a software engineer at Pinterest, where he spent over three years scaling consumer products. Studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon and is passionate about seamless, tech-enabled travel experiences.

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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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