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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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.
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.
Abiel
Co-founder and CTO of Comun, building banking infrastructure to expand financial access for immigrant communities. Previously an early engineer at Brex. Studied computer science at Stanford and is passionate about mission-driven systems that scale.
Pacssu
PACSSU, Product Designer & Team Builder. Most recently, VP of Product Design at Ro, now exploring addressing lonlieness.
Mike
Building KOAH - Ad network for LLM applications https://koahlabs.com
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
Benjamin
I spent the last 8 years at Stripe, where I was the founding engineer on Stripe Terminal, drove the acquisition of Index, and post-launch led integration experience and global expansion for the Terminal product. I've run teams large (50) and small, led mobile strategy across Stripe with @shreyas as my mentor, and spent the last 2 years working on Stripe Connect. I'm so excited to be building something new with Rob Cheung, who I met at Venmo.
Yash
I love science and technology. I have previously worked at Spotnana (as founding engineer) and Google (in search, research teams). Currently I am working on an B2C startup in AI space.
Franck
Engineering leader with deep expertise in Web3 and large scale infrastructure. - VP of eng. at a DeFi crypto startup (Origin Protocol). Built smart contracts handling hundreds of millions of dollars. - Built search infra from ground up at Dropbox pre-IPO as tech lead. - Founded and managed the team that built the first Content ID system at YouTube pre Google acquisition. - Early engineer at PayPal, TLM for the Merchant facing engineering team
Rohit
Quantum physicist turned entrepreneur. Now building the optical highway to cosmos.

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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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