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.

Apply
south park commons community

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.

See More
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is interested in climate, reversing the digitalization of identity, and, somewhat reluctantly, crypto. Previously, Jeffrey was a software engineer at Plaid and a student at Harvard (CS/Philosophy 2019). Also, please go surfing with him.
Abhinav
Abhinav is a builder with experience with Marketplaces, Search, and Distributed systems & ML Infra.
Pete
Pete is the co-founder of Swoop.
Dan
CTO + Founder at Goodfire AI. Previously Founding Engineer and Head of AI at RippleMatch.
Marc
Co-Founder, Telepath and Wavelength. Co-Founder & Managing Director, Elevation Partners. Led business & community teams, Quora.
Will
I enjoy working at early-stage companies to have a bigger impact. Having experienced a few mildly successful exits at Canadian startups, I am taking the leap to become a founder and start building something exciting.
Wenyu
Wenyu Jin is a Founding Engineer / Co-Founder at Unseen-AI with 10+ years' expertise in audio DSP, machine learning, and speech enhancement algorithms (Cruise, Sonos, Starkey). He holds 18 patents, authored 16 peer-reviewed papers, and earned a PhD in Acoustics from Victoria University of Wellington. He is an IEEE Senior Member.
Henrik
Impact focused product leader with a passion for design and technology. During my career I've built companies and products from zero to one as well as been through scaling as an operator and executive.
Rob
Co-founder and CTO of Vori, bringing modern tools to streamline food supply chains. Previously worked on vehicle systems at SpaceX and Lyft, with a background in electrical engineering from Stanford.
Evan
Tinkerer with a background in AI and Education, interested in building tools for better pedagogy and tools for thinking. Currently thinking about how to build a better online reading experience. Let's chat about LLMs, Jose Luis Borges, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Our Spaces

San Francisco
New York
Bengaluru

What our members do


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.

google ai
South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
© 2025 All rights reserved.
South Park Commons
380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
© 2022 All rights reserved.