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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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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Ying
After spending 12 years as a public market investor at hedge funds, I am now building AI assistant for institutional investors.
Allen
A bit on my background: - Born & raised in Minnesota - Most recently, Chief of Staff at Zip ($2.2B procurement SaaS) - Formerly, PE Investor at Bain Capital, Econ grad at Harvard & bootstrapped DTC founder. - I like backpacking, golfing, and recently got into motorcycling!
Zorayr
I was one of the early engineers on Messenger and helped to grow it to billions of people; after Messenger, spent a few years as an Engineering Manager on various new products within Facebook including stories and teens pillars. I am an engineer with a PMs hat that loves to help people. Reach out if there is anything I can help with!
Nick
Co-founder at ROSNIK AI, working on improving the experience of human in the loop AI systems. Previously, built software to scale Modern Health and Optimizely. Happy to chat about all things startups, software engineering, distributed systems, mental health, and food.
Abhinav
Product and design leader focused on user-facing AI tools, most recently Director of Product at Scale AI where he launched Outlier.ai. Previously co-founded Insight Browser and led product for Quora Spaces and Sessions. Currently exploring new ideas at South Park Commons.
Vineet
I am an IIT Roorkee grad (Comp Sc), a techie-turned-entrepreneur and have 15 years of experience in the internet industry. I co-founded Trainman, a train ticket booking app, which amassed 20 million downloads and was later acquired by Adani group.
Andrew
I'm a VC living in Hawaii. I work with founders investing in the things that make life worth living. My biggest hobbies are running (marathoner aiming to BQ) and surfing. Say hi!
Michelle
Exploring mass electrification and ways to build critical power grid infrastructure.
Alexander
Recently sold my last startup to Coinbase. Starting a new company to fix important problems in the electric grid + energy industry.
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.

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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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