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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Ben
Ben is the co-founder and CTO at Bevel. Previously he was a background in systems engineering and pricing infrastructure at Opendoor. Studied Networked & Social Systems Engineering at UPenn and is passionate about building data-informed, user-first products.
Rajshekar
Building the non-invasive Neuralink at axionclick.com. 7+ yrs in HCI. Published 14 papers at top venues including CHI. 2 pending patents. Prev built AR/VR systems for surgical robots at Intuitive.
Andrew
Software engineer, previously worked at Figma on the product and the engine, Berkeley CS. Interested in computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning.
Dhruv
Product manager, Deep Mind and Google Search Tech lead, Google Search and Microsoft Office I want to turn tech research into viable businesses. Know the most about NLP and ML and very interested in robotics, education, energy and space.
Trisha
Trisha is the co-founder and CEO of Unit21. She was previously an early engineer at Affirm, and subsequently PM. She studied Computer Science at Penn. She loves to paint.
Kevin
I'm working on an AI media company. Think Fox News / MSNBC but driven fully by AI, and distributed on modern platforms like TikTok. Previously, I started a web-scale crawler that I sold in 2022. I also do standup comedy and anything outdoors.
Steffen
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Vladimir
Founder and CEO of Lighter, and previously co-founder of Lunchclub. Earlier roles include Head of Machine Learning at Quora and VP Engineering at Addepar. He’s also an active investor in startups like Robinhood, Ramp, and Cognition, with a background in economics from Harvard (graduated at 18).
Gloria
Gloria is the founder and CEO of Siteline, bringing modern financial tools to the construction industry. Previously Stripe’s first PM hire, where she worked on Checkout, Dashboard, and Risk/Identity.
Neeraj
Entrepreneur with expertise in Indian SMBs, E-commerce, and Payments. Co-founded Zopper, scaling it to $20M+ funding and a PhonePe acquisition. Built PhonePe’s offline merchant ecosystem from 1M to 100M transactions. MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

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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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