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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Josh
Josh is a Member of the Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he leads research on agentic products. Previously co-founded Gantry to help teams improve ML products with human feedback, and has held research and teaching roles at OpenAI and UC Berkeley. He also co-organizes Full Stack Deep Learning.
Sami
Founder of Echo Chunk AI. Building strategy games that generate themselves.
Jacinda
Jacinda is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer at Apero Health, building tools to streamline medical billing and infrastructure. Previously CTO and founding engineer at Doctor On Demand, where she scaled telehealth platforms from the ground up.
Matt
Matt is a Principal Scientist at Adobe, focused on building tools for creative work. Previously founded Facet, a content-aware image editing platform, and held engineering roles at Operator and Kinema. With a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon, he brings deep expertise in simulation, machine learning, and interactive media.
Reginald
Previously an engineer at Affirm, Growth EM at Motive, and EIR at HVF Labs. Working on startup building an access management platform.
Ani
Ani is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Orbital, building the ZoomInfo for companies selling to SMBs and midmarket. Previously led engineering at Cisco Meraki and held product and GTM roles at Polymail and Tivamo. Background in CS and business from Rice University.
Jason
Jason is the co-founder and CEO of Slab. He is also BDFL for the open source project Quill and formerly the founder of Stypi (sold to Salesforce). He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford.
Damon
Software engineer & technical leader in Games. I've worked in the industry for 15 years at studios ranging from my own startup to AAA. If you're interested in the games space hit me up.
Luis
Luis F. Voloch is the CEO / cofounder of jiminihealth.com, where they are developing clinically integrated LLMs for psychotherapy. He is also an AI researcher and lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches about management and entrepreneurship topics in data science and AI heavy companies, and where they differ from traditional software companies. Luis is also the cofounder of Immunai, an AI-driven cancer immunotherapy biotech company based out of NYC. They develop cutting edge technologies at the intersection of AI, genomics, big data, and immunology for developing immunotherapies. Immunai has over 140 people in NYC and other sites, and have raised over $300M and are valued at over $1B.
Geoff
Founder of Apollo GraphQL, MeteorJS, Monument, and others

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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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