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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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.
Shannon
Working in Responsible AI and AI governance, and exploring how to build technology in service of a more just society. Previously, a PM at Scale AI. Berkeley alum. Based in San Francisco, and often found in NYC and Shanghai. Let's go sailing together.
Marc
Co-Founder, Telepath and Wavelength. Co-Founder & Managing Director, Elevation Partners. Led business & community teams, Quora.
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.
Andrew
https://escargot.com
Tong
Co-Founder & CEO of hologram.xyz. Previously 0x (Matcha), robotics, Penn, and freelance photography.
David
Exploring travel community ideas. Mint.com VP Engineering; Co-founder/CTO algorithmic trading hedge fund (10yrs); PGP (encryption startup); several other startups.. From NJ; Moved west for Stanford (CompSci) and stayed in SF.
Dwight
Founder, Chairman of Board for Whisper.ai. We are a team of artificial intelligence, hearing care, hardware, and software experts coming together to solve the challenge of providing better hearing.
Arseniy
Arseniy is the co-founder of Moai Cash.
Jonathan
Jonathan is the Head of Design at Eigen Labs and co-founder of VectorDAO, working at the intersection of crypto, design, and product. Previously led design teams at Coinbase.

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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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