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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Seth
Founder and CEO of Riffusion, building at the frontier of AI and music. Previously founded Hardline and Yodel, and was Head of Product at Shape. Princeton alum with a background in molecular biology and global health.
Daniel
CEO and co-founder of DoubleLoop, helping product teams build metrics-driven strategies. Previously led product at MDsave and GoodGuide (acquired by UL), with earlier roles at CBS Interactive and CNET. Brings two decades of experience in product leadership and data-informed development.
Andrew
I grew up in San Diego and studied CS at Brown. I dropped out to be an early engineer at Snackpass (YC, a16z, Craft) and built out our marketplace infra that scaled from $100k's a year to $120M+ today. I am passionate about DeFi and creating globally inclusive financial products.
Matt
Matt is working full-time on starting a climate-tech company. Previously, he was Head of Engineering at Studio and an ML Scientist at Tesla Autopilot. He spends his free time playing music, skateboarding, and nerding out about space travel and TTRPGs.
Faith
Faith is the Storytelling Associate at SPC, based in San Francisco, where she helps craft narrative and video content. Previously, she worked at United Talent Agency in Los Angeles and holds a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. In her free time, Faith enjoys watching bad (and good) movies, snowboarding, and road trips!
Tuhin
Co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to deploy and serve machine learning models at scale. Previously co-founded Shape and worked on ML at Gumroad and Skulpt.
Kunal
Head of Product + Design at Rilla (prev. Founding Engineer). Penn '22
Toby
16 y/o founder of Beem. Obsessed with computing interfaces
Max
Climate-tech founder, new to SF. Since my acquisition 6 months ago, I've focused on energy & grid management and construction-tech. Based on my experience, I'd like to explore if agentic AI can help mitigate complex and messy workflows in these areas.
Nathan
Robotics/AI engineer who built open-source humanoid infra and simulator. Researched gradient-guided diffusion policies at REAL lab. Interested in scaling robotics infra & foundation models. Multidisciplinary science olympiad finalist (chem/bio/math/CS)., Robotics/AI engineer researching diffusion policies at Stanford AI lab. Previously built open-source humanoid infra and simulator. Interested in scaling robotics infra & foundation models. Multidisciplinary science olympiad finalist (chem/bio/math/CS).

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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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