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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Aaron
Aaron co-founded Matrix Operations, a high-frequency trading firm operating in NYC and London. He designed the software infrastructure and am responsible for realtime performance of the trading systems.
Wenda
AI + Robotics, Ex Apple, CMU
Justin
Justin most recently led Growth at Rockset, and worked on Google's Cloud Security team prior. He was also the Founder/CEO of Xenia Gifts. Justin graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration.
Julien
Engineer. Cofounder Pascal (SPC F25) Cofounder Ledger Investing (YC W17)
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.
Toby
CEO Beem
Amanda
https://www.amandalind.com/
Andres
Andres is the co-founder and CEO of Comun, building modern financial services for immigrant communities. Previously an investor at FJ Labs and held strategy leadership roles at Sigma Alimentos, where he led IPO planning and global category expansion.
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.
Shashank
Co-founder @zango.ai. Building AI agents for compliance teams. Ex-Founder @ [fraud monitoring AI startup Thirdwatch] acquired by @Razorpay. Worked with @PhonePe, and led Product and engineering teams.

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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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