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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Sheetal
From teaching --> technologist, passionate about story-telling and new forms of interaction design!
Apurv
Apurv Mehra is a Computer Engineer and Researcher. Past Microsoft Research and IIITD
Ben
Co-Founder, CEO at Transcend, the data infrastructure powering your privacy rights at your favorite brands. Formerly Computer Science at Harvard.
Scott
Building Elevate, AI-powered data management for private equity-backed roll-ups
Sam
scaleinvariant.ai is building artificial creativity using an approach rooted in mechanistic interpretability. Temperature is not enough -- talk to me about it! ex ML @ Waymo, Google. Actively looking for a cofounder.
Alex
Engineering Manager at Stainless, leading the Apps team. Previously founded Interval (acquired by Meter), helping developers build better internal tools with 10x less code. . Ask ChatGPT
Rajat
Built and scaled B2B SaaS + Marketplace in manufacturing to $200M (Tiger Global, Alphawave). Bootstrapped a land records solution for financial institutions. IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad alumnus. Always learning and sometimes earning.
Augustine
RL PhD at UCL, working on LLMs and reasoning at vmax, prev: AI safety at Redwood research, NeuroAI at CSHL, AI for genomics at lllumina
Tejas
Math/CS guy currently working on AI. Always open to discussions about AI, robotics, and anything algebraic!
Asad
Asad is the CEO and co-founder of Jams, building new ways for people to connect and collaborate online. Previously VP of Creators and Monetization at Meta, where he led teams empowering the next generation of creators. He brings over a decade of experience at the intersection of product, content, and community.

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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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