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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Ian
Previously PhD student at Stanford, student researcher at Google Deepmind and Meta Reality Labs.
Jonathan
Previously worked in engineering at Y Combinator, Checkr, and Penny (acq Credit Karma). Exploring on-chain data infrastructure for crypto protocols & dapps.
Charles
Charles Bai is a healthcare entrepreneur with experience across provider, intermediary, broker, and payor levels. He is focused on identifying critical inefficiencies in the US healthcare system to drive transformative improvements in health outcomes.
Rajeev
Founder at Sonic Linker
Tony
Tony is the co-founder of Sheetrocks.
Kevin
Leafy Lab Cofounder | Democratizing Chip Design Stanford CS | Previously at Emerald Cloud Lab and Uber Here to accelerate ideation to manufacturing at scale
Kun
Serial Entrepreneur, Autonomy Enthusiast, autonomous driving and robotics background.
Daniel
CEO and co-founder of DoubleLoop, helping product teams build metrics-driven strategies. Previously led product at MDsave and GoodGuide (acquired by UL), with earlier roles at CBS Interactive and CNET. Brings two decades of experience in product leadership and data-informed development.
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.
Wenyu
Wenyu Jin is a Founding Engineer / Co-Founder at Unseen-AI with 10+ years' expertise in audio DSP, machine learning, and speech enhancement algorithms (Cruise, Sonos, Starkey). He holds 18 patents, authored 16 peer-reviewed papers, and earned a PhD in Acoustics from Victoria University of Wellington. He is an IEEE Senior Member.

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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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