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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Mike
Building KOAH - Ad network for LLM applications https://koahlabs.com
Tammy
Tammy is the Founder and CEO of Carrot Fertility, the leading global platform for lifelong fertility and family care. Previously held senior roles at Evernote, the FCC, and the Clinton Foundation, with early experience in the Office of the Vice President.
Eddie
Designer / Engineer combo! Worked on novel interfaces at Humane and iOS/Desktop at Slack. Studied CS at Brown and did design stuff at RISD. Former Hack@Brown co-director. Excited about the new interfaces AI will enable us to build.
James
Founder exploring new ideas in un-sexy spaces.
Kevin
Kevin is the founder and CEO of Centari, building next-generation information tools for legal and deal teams. Previously served as Head of Legal at Kasa and Deputy General Counsel at Hamilton Zanze. A UC Berkeley Law grad, he blends deep legal expertise with startup operational experience.
Kshitij
Co-founder of Orb, building billing infrastructure for modern software teams. Previously led real-time infrastructure at Asana. Studied computer science and philosophy at Caltech and was part of the South Park Commons founder fellowship.
Kevin
Studied CS @ UWaterloo, learned to be a SWE. Spent past 5 years as a PM. Marketplace PM @ Lime (scooters, Series A -> D), then founding PM @ Kikoff (fintech, Seed -> Series B). Working to make the world more abundant with tools that give humans leverage.
Danny
Immunologist and data scientist building therapeutics that matter.
Abhinav
Abhinav works on Computer Vision, AI/ML, & Robotics. He is an Associate Professor @ UMD. Before that, he was a visiting RS at Google AI. He completed his PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017, where he was a MSR Fellow.
Samantha
Samantha is a software engineer with previous experience in fintech & AI. She is currently working on projects in the crypto space.

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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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